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Achim Gratz wrote
> The question really is if org hasn't evolved to the point where it needs
> a more general quoting/escaping mechanism.

+1

However there's caveat:
Just run

zgrep '\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' *.el.gz

on your emacs' el.gz files and you will find that its not empty -- So
general and convenient are somewhat at odds here :-)

Which is why python has triple-quoted strings, raw strings and what not...