The sixth no sooner had begun about the beast to grope, Than seizing on the swinging tail that fell within his scope; “I see,” said he, “the elephant is very like a rope.” So six blind men of Hindustan disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion exceeding stiff and strong; Though each was partly in the right, they all were in the wrong!12 Here the multiplicity of interpretations stems not from the indeterminacy of the object but from the way it exceeds the ability of any limited perspective to