Remember the Blind Men and the Elephant?
Parts do not always equal the whole: "There were once six blind men who stood by the road-side every day, and begged from the people who passed. They had often heard of elephants, but they had never seen one; for, being blind, how could they?" https://americanliterature.com/author/james-baldwin/short-story/the-blind-men-and-the-elephant












