March 2022 One way to solve an encrypted message, if we know its language, is to find a different plaintext of the same language… and then we count the occurrences of each letter… Then we look at the cipher text we want to solve and we also classify its symbols…

Kottman had scheduled, at that very moment, and previously, a lunch appointment with his mother. Kottman regretted his submission to her demand that they must meet at once to discuss an urgent matter. For then and always Kottman regretted his regret, for he knew regret, futile though not, an impoverished…

And so he was. Leaning motionless upon the table in the dark room, resembling imperially one-third microsecond from-to original refraction plus ten centiseconds hence retinal annihilation, in the virtuality of the not-yet flickering monitored projection, he represented a colossal marble representation of Argus Panoptes, the watchman in the ossuary of…