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XII explained
A brief reflection on the difficulty of finding a needle in a haystack, noting that the rarity of needles in haystacks is the true reason for the challenge.
What happens
A brief reflection on the difficulty of finding a needle in a haystack, noting that the rarity of needles in haystacks is the true reason for the challenge.
Key passages
“Everybody professes to know that it would be difficult to find a needle in a haystack, but very few reflect that this is because haystacks seldom contain needles.”
People commonly acknowledge the difficulty of finding a needle in a haystack, but rarely consider that the real reason is that needles are rarely found in haystacks.
The narrator offers a logical twist on a common saying.