<font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">여섯명의 시각장애인들이 코끼리를 만났습니다.</span></font> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">첫번째 남자는 코를 만지고는 비명을 질렀습니다, "이 촉감, 이 길이, 이 꾸물거림? 이건 뱀이다!"</span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">두번째 남자는 코끼리의 상아에 부딪히고는 소리 쳤습니다, "이 뾰족하고 단단한것은 죽창이 분명해!"</span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">세번째 남자는 코끼리의 등에 올라타고는 말했죠, "높구나, 단단하구나, 벽이 분명하구나."</span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">네번째 남자는 코끼리의 귀를 만지작 거리더니 깨달음을 얻었죠. "이것은 얇고 팔랑거리네요. 제 모든 감이 말해줘요, 내 손에 있는 물건은 부채입니다."</span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">다섯번째 남자는 코끼리의 다리에 등치기를 하면서 얘기했죠, "으아, 내 등치기 경력만 38년인데, 이건 떡갈나무다."</span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">마지막 남자는 코끼리의 꼬리를 붙잡고 향긋함을 느끼면서 입을 열었습니다. "음 냄새는 잘 모르겠지만, 길고 얇은걸로 보아선 밧줄이 분명해요."</span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">모두의 의견이 일치하지 않아 서로 당황했으나, 세번째 남자는 고개를 끄덕이고는 말을했죠.</span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">"이것은 뱀같은 뭔가를 가지고 있구나. 게다가 죽창같은 뾰족함과 벽과 같은 단단함, 그리고 높이를 가지고 있지. 그뿐이랴, 부채같고, 나무같으며 조금 향긋한 밧줄로 보아, 이것은 코끼리구나."</span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">그 말을 들은 나머지 남자들은 고개를 끄덕이고 코끼리의 모든 부위를 만져보기 시작했죠.</span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">코끼리의 아마 모든 부위를 만져본 이들은, 의심할 여지없이 이것은 코끼리라고 하였죠.</span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">그때 성난 닭이 날아와서 시각장애인들은 쪼으면서 소리쳤죠, "이건 나무야, 이건 나무라고!!!! 빼애애애ㅐㅇ애애ㅐㅐ액애개액개개 꼬꼬꼬꼬!" </span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;"><br></span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">Once, six blind men met an elephant.</span></font></div> <div><font size="4">First man touched the nose of the elephant and screamed, "This touch, this length and <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>this wriggling! It's a snake!" </font></div> <div><font size="4">The second man bounced to the tusk of the elephant and shouted, "This sharp and hard thing must be a bamboo spear!"</font></div> <div><font size="4">Then the third man rode the elephant's back and said, "High and hard. Definitely a wall."</font></div> <div><font size="4">The fourth man touched elephant's ears and realized. </font></div> <div><font size="4"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>"It is thin and it flaps. All of my senses tell this object is a fan."</font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">The fifth man spoke while hitting the legs of elephants with his back, "Ah, I have been hitting trees with my back for thirty eight years. Those experiences are telling me that this is an oak tree."</span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">The last man grabbed the tail and opened his mouth while he smelled the unpleasant scent.</span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span>"Hmm... I don't know about the smell, but this long and thinness must be a rope."</span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;"> </span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">All six men were confused, as they were not talking about a same object. Yet the third man nodded and said, "This thing has something like a snake. Also, it has sharpness as a bamboo spear and hard and tall as a wall. Even more, it has the characteristics of fan, tree and a rope with a scent. This is an elephant."</span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">Other men who heard this nodded too and touched all the other parts of the elephant.</span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">After touching every single part of the elephant, all six men agreed upon that this strange thing is an elephant.</span></font></div> <div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:27px;">That moment, an angry chicken jumped in screamed while pecking six blind men, "This is a tree, I said this is a treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! BBaaaaaaaeeeeeeeek? Cock a doodle doo!"</span></font></div>