Hebrew Letters

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    By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, then we remembered Zion.
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXXXVII (l. CXXXVII, 1)

    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)