. . . exclude certain bracketed text from being seen as a variable?

Q. I really need certain text in my document to be surrounded by brackets, and don't want Pathagoras to treat it like a variable. Is there a way to tell Pathagoras to ignore that text?

A. Yes. Simply put two asterisks inside the opening bracket. This tells Pathagoras 'ignore me.' E.g.,  [**This is not really a variable]