Hebrew Letters

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“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes, 1:2 passim.

“How do we know, then, when a code’s been cracked? ... when we are right? ... when do we know if we have even received a message? Why, naturally, when, upon one set of substitutions, sense emerges like the outline under a rubbing; when a single tentative construal leads to several; when all the sullen letters of the code cry TEAM! after YEA! has been, by several hands, uncovered.”
—William Gass (b. 1924)