With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced.

Martha Cooley, The Archivist

 

Nevertheless, as a method of interpretation, allegorical exegesis is simply a trick—a trick not untypical of the ingenuity of the Greeks who invented it—to make an authoritative text mean what you want it to mean, despite the fact that the actual words mean something quite different.

E. W. Heaton, A Short Introduction to the Old Testament Prophets

Figure 5. The hierarchical Plan for hammering nails.
George A Miller., Eugene Galanter, and Karl H.
Pribram, Plans and the Structure of Behavior.