Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 35 | 178 | "View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps a message could be unraveled". |
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 35 | 175 | "As you cannot read," said Master Desmond, "this is not obvious to you, but the small sheet which seems to be a game's annotation and the large sheet, whose squares contain letters, or meaningless marks, are both numbered". |
| 35 | 176 | "The numbers are then matched," I said. |
| 35 | 177 | "Yes," he said. |
| 35 | 178 | "Perhaps a message could be unraveled". |
| 35 | 179 | "But not easily, or quickly," he said. |
| 35 | 180 | "By the time the message is understood it might be too late. |
| 35 | 181 | More importantly, it is difficult to unravel such things unless one has a large amount of material at one's disposal, which allows for more attention to letter frequencies, hypotheses as to possible meanings, testing these hypotheses against additional material, and such. |
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"As you cannot read," said Master Desmond, "this is not obvious to you, but the small sheet which seems to be a game's annotation and the large sheet, whose squares contain letters, or meaningless marks, are both numbered".
"The numbers are then matched," I said.
"Yes," he said.
"Perhaps a message could be unraveled".
"But not easily, or quickly," he said.
"By the time the message is understood it might be too late.
More importantly, it is difficult to unravel such things unless one has a large amount of material at one's disposal, which allows for more attention to letter frequencies, hypotheses as to possible meanings, testing these hypotheses against additional material, and such.
- (Conspirators of Gor)