Lewis Carroll's works (including such books as A Tangled Tale) includes the story as an analogy to the impression one gets from reading a few articles about Carroll, with him only being seen as a writer and poet by some, and a mediocre mathematician by others. The full picture, however, is that "Carroll only resembles Carroll the way an elephant only resembles an elephant". The story enjoys a continuing appeal, as shown by the number of illustrated children's books of the fable; there is one for instance by Paul Galdone and another, Seven Blind Mice, by Ed Young (1992). In the title cartoon of one of his books, cartoonist Sam Gross postulated that one of the blind men, encountering a pile of the elephant feces, concluded that "An elephant is soft and mushy." An elephant joke inverts the story in the following way, with the act of observation severely and fatally altering the subject of investigation: Six blind elephants were discussing what men were like. After arguing they decided to find one and determine what it was like by direct experience. The first blind elephant felt the man and declared, 'Men are flat.' After the other blind elephants felt the man, they agreed. Moral: Touching the Elephant was a 1997 BBC Radio 4 documentary in which four people of varying ages, all blind from birth, were brought to London Zoo to touch an elephant and describe their response. Ship of Theseus, a 2012 Indian philosophical drama named after the eponymous thought experiment, also references the parable. See also Allegory of the cave, a rough equivalent in Western philosophy Anekantavada Black cat analogy Dispersed knowledge Duck test Elephant in the room Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, an 1884 satirical novella Hasty generalization Naïve realism (psychology) Rashomon effect Seeing pink elephants (concerning the concept of whether a person perceives an elephant, but in a different way) Seeing the elephant (concerning the concept of whether a person perceives an elephant, but in a different way) Syncretism The blind leading the blind The Country of the Blind Tittha Sutta (From Udāna) Unreliable narrator References External links Story of the Blind Men and the Elephant from www.spiritual-education.org All of Saxe's Poems including original printing of The Blindman and the Elephant Free to read and full text search. Buddhist Version as found in Jainism and Buddhism. Udana hosted by the University of Princeton Jalal ad-Din