Visual impairment men in the dark) touch an elephant to learn what it is like. Each one feels a different part, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then compare notes and learn that they are in complete disagreement. "Three Blind Mice" is a medieval English nursery rhyme about three blind mice whose tails are cut off after chasing the farmer's wife. The work is explicitly incongruous, ending with the comment "Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three blind mice?" Poet John Milton, who went blind in mid-life, composed On His Blindness,
One for Sorrow (nursery rhyme) Fallen Angels", by Cassandra Clare. The character Simon reflects on his mother teaching him the rhyme as a child. Ashe Corven recites a version of the rhyme in the 1996 film "", with crows in place of magpies. The rhyme is in part 5 of Monday, January 12 in the mystery "Through the Evil Days" by Julia Spencer-Fleming when a crow caws once in a tense winter scene, leaving a character who is visualizing a grim outcome to hope for a second caw. The novels in the John, the Lord Chamberlain series of historical mysteries, taking place in Justinian's Constantinople,