I take of my hat and bow low, Shay. Your effort reminds me of a Chinese 
story:

A rich patron visited a famous painter and asked him if he could draw a 
life-like copy of a bird (I think it was a cock, but I do not remember 
exactly) with one single brush stroke. The painter told him to come back a 
week later. That day, the painter took a virgin piece of paper and painted 
the bird in one single brush stroke. The patron was duly impressed and asked 
the painter the price of this painting. The price was a very large sum of 
gold. "What? said the patron, so much for a single brush stroke?". The 
painter took him to another room which was stuffed full with countless 
rejected trials of the bird. "It is not that single brush stroke that you 
pay, but all the days and nights I have spent to reach perfection."

Thomas

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