[Stoves] The blind men and the cooking stove

[Nikhil Desai]

Crispin says "Not one of them has seen!"

But they can be ASSUMED!


Nikhil

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Nikhil Desai
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On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:55 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <
crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:

> With apologies to John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)
>
> Blind Men and the Cooking Stove
>
> It was six men of Indostan,
> To testing much inclined,
> Who went to test a cooking stove
> (Though all of them were blind),
> That each by observation
> Might test it with his mind.
>
> The First approach’d the cooking stove,
> And happening to fall
> Against its broad and sturdy side,
> At once began to bawl:
> “God bless me! But a cooking stove
> Is structured like a wall!”
>
> The Second, hand upon the fuel,
> Cried, -“Ho! what have we here
> So very round and smooth and sharp?
> To me ’tis mighty clear,
> This stove cannot support a pot
> That much is crystal clear!”
>
> The Third approached the boiling pot,
> And happening to take
> The jiggling handle with his hands,
> Thus boldly up and spake:
> “I see,” -quoth he- “this cooking stove
> Is somewhat like a snake!”
>
> The Fourth reached out an eager hand,
> And felt about the shroud:
> “What wondrous feature this stove has
> Is plain,” – he quoth aloud,-
> “‘This most efficient cooking stove
> By women will be ‘Wowed’!”
>
> The Fifth, who chanced to touch a knob,
> Said- “E’en the blindest man
> Can tell what this resembles most;
> Deny the fact, who can.
> This modern forced air cooking stove
> Has a computer fan!”
>
> The Sixth no sooner had begun
> About the stove to grope,
> Then, seizing on the sunken pot
> That fell within his scope,
> “I see,” -quoth he,- “improv-ed stoves
> Can’t cook, there is no hope!”
>
> These testing men of Indostan
> Disputed loud and long,
> Each to his own opinion held
> Exceeding stiff and strong,
> Though each was partly in the right,
> And all were in the wrong!
>
> MORAL,
>
> So, oft in theologic wars
> The disputants, I ween,
> Rail on in utter ignorance
> Of what each other mean;
> And prate about efficient stoves
>
> Not one of them has seen!
>
>
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