"formas de tensar cordeles"

Question

The full sentence is: "Santiago ve el entorno con pragmática; el bien y el mal son para él formas de tensar cordeles."

What does formas de tensar cordeles mean? Points in a staright line (like in a continuum)? The literal translation forms of stretching cords does not make sense to me.

Thank you!

Answer 1

...to tense/stretch situations

Would that work for you?