Things Civilization Runs On Without Naming

Things People Forget The Word For

is nothing other than the long way around when everybody knows it.

The long way around is the shortcut when everybody knows the shortcut. - Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

is a course which, if known by everyone, makes the long way around the shortcut.

is a road that reaches only one place. The road reaches every place.

The road reaches every place, the short cut only one.

is a route on which you can't find anybody to ask where you are.

A shortcut is the longest path between two points.

is the longest distance between two points.