complex English

Earlier this week, I was reading a textbook. It tried to explain the communication barriers between people. It used an example about six blind people touching an huge elephant and none of them can fully describe how exactly an elephant is like. And the six of them have a quarrel. It took the writer of the textbook about half of the page to tell this story. I feel so tried reading it. We have the exact story in Chinese, and we used to refer to this story in only FOUR characters: 盲人摸象.