<HTML>Hi Anthony,
I like your analogy... the story of "The Blind Men and the Elephant" (John G. Saxe) is perhaps equally appropriate. It ends with the following:
"And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong."
For those who aren't familiar with it, six blind men went to "see" the Elephant and each ended up grabbing a different part of the elephant (side, tusk, trunk, knee, ear, tail) and attempted to desribe what an elephant is like. Hence, the final paragraph above where their final analysis of their respective body part was "partly right", but for the elephant as a whole was totally "wrong". Now was that an elephant or the Sphinx! ;-)
Litz</HTML>
