CHAPTER 1
APERITIFS
“Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher that human ingenuity cannot resolve”
— The Gold Bug (Edgar Allan Poe)
“It Ain't Necessarily So”
— Song from Porgy and Bess (George and Ira Gershwin)1
“Skipper” the sailor said to his captain as he saluted,
“A special message just came in for you from the admiral. I have it right here.” “Read it to me,” the captain ordered.
The sailor began reading nervously, “You are without a doubt the most idiotic, lame-brained officer ever to command a ship in the United States Navy.” “Have that communication decoded at once!,” The skipper responded
— Pastor Tim's Clean Laugh List
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