Missing Piece Why don’t we try the outside first?     Because it’s just the frame.     I want to do the middle, the picture. But it’s all a picture. We’ll see the whole picture sooner if we do the outside first.     Let’s just do the middle… Fine.     …and talk about something else… Fine.     …for longer. Daniel M. Shapiro Daniel M. Shapiro (danshapiro@msn.com) owns a puzzle based on a Jackson Pollock painting. Not particularly self-loathing, he has never completed it.