From the valley below, each pier and mast merge to look like a single needle with an elongated eye: Foster's drawings, in fact, depict a thread piercing theeyeofaneedle.
Though Jesus once said it is easier for a camel to pass through theeyeofaneedle than for a rich man to enter heaven, "it is a misreading of Catholic theology to think that one cannot be a successful business person and a person of faith, " says Mr. Abela.
Deserters from the Austro-Hungarian army found this made it the perfect hideout - at the head of one valley the pathway passes through the'eye' ofaneedleof rock, and from here foolhardy Imperial Army inspectors could be dispatched with a cosh over the head.
Self-assembly was very useful in eye-of-the-needle problems in cases where you had to get something very large through a very small hole and Leuthardt wondered if it might be helpful in minimally invasive surgery.