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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

William Gass (b. 1924), U.S. fictionist, essayist, philosopher. Review of Freud and His Followers by Paul Roazen, and Social Amnesia by Russell Jacoby; published as "The Anatomy of Mind" and "The Scientific Psychol." "The Anatomy of Mind," p. 238, The World Within the Word.

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