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...Two early science fiction stories by the wonderful craftsman, Philip K. Dick. In the Crystal Crypt, taken from the 1954 Planet Stories, the war between Mars and Terra is about to erupt and earth has only merchants and salesmen to fight; can they carry out their mission? Beyond the Door is a story that asks and answer...

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... great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy. The hall was large and low, the roof arched, and supported on thick short columns, almost like the crypt of a Cathedral; the walls were thick, and the windows, which had no glass, were very small, set in such a depth of wall that there was a wide deep window seat, upon which the rain might beat, without reaching the interi...

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...ow, the roof arched, and supported on thick short columns, almost like the crypt of a Cathedral; the walls were thick, and the windows, which had no g...

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...d, who becomes friends with an older man who turns out to be the leader of a gang of smugglers. One night John chances on the smugglers' store in the crypt beneath the church. He explores but hides behind a coffin when he hears voices. He finds a locket which contains a parchment, in the coffin belonging to Colonel Mohune. Unfortunately after the visitors leave, he finds h...

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...s of life dancing on this islet sphere riding the blind career of outward motion. These rhymes are threnodies and hosannas among nurseries and crypts, hummings to fright hants habiting dingy trails through a wilderness, attempts to stay awhile this side the lichgate by becoming a gossip for the ineffable. They are a literary aesthetic concerning the quicksilve...

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...HAPTER SEVEN The Sign of the Times CHAPTER EIGHT The Whispering Willows CHAPTER NINE Pigeon Pie and Sprouts CHAPTER TEN The Cadaverous Crypt CHAPTER ELEVEN Barker’s Dozen CHAPTER TWELVE A Rubbish Day CHAPTER THIRTEEN Tea and Tyranny CHAPTER FOURTEEN A Boring Tale CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Grumpy Pirate CHAPTER SIXTEEN A Death in the Family ...

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...tighten on my shoulder. Kislev 12 We brought John to the ancient rocky crypts, a dozen of us. Some of us wound scarves around our faces. Mother s... ...here... Matthew, Peter, Luke, Mark...they helped us lay John out- side his crypt, helped us cut stone. A torch burned Mark’s arm; someone smashed our... ...ht to bury our dead.” Luke had to calm him. It was dawn before we had the crypt sealed; we were cut and bruised. No torches. As I sat among the cli... ...ives, here at the tombs, I knew death was not the answer. I walked to the crypt where Lazarus lay. Loose rocks tum- bled underfoot. Wind whipped. A b... ... lay. Loose rocks tum- bled underfoot. Wind whipped. A boulder blocked the crypt and I asked Martha I VOICES FROM THE PAST 40 to have her frie... ...spat on all of us. Ah, sorrowing women, yellow rocks, death, a man in his crypt, cold stone, a hawk screaming... I called again and again. “Lazaru... ...om one to the other, his face birdlike, hawklike, white. He peered at his crypt. Martha hugged him, laughing. People gathered. Some knelt around us.... ...he ground, in the sun. Caretakers at the graveyard claim that one of the crypts has been robbed. Jerusalem I keep hearing the words of an old hy... ...nd. I looked at my right hand. They had healed. The stone that blocked my crypt had been rolled aside. It was dawn when I went out. Outside I found ...

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...tighten on my shoulder. Kislev 12 We brought John to the ancient rocky crypts, a dozen of us. Some of us wound scarves around our faces. Mother s... ...here... Matthew, Peter, Luke, Mark...they helped us lay John out- side his crypt, helped us cut stone. A torch burned Mark’s arm; someone smashed our... ...ht to bury our dead.” Luke had to calm him. It was dawn before we had the crypt sealed; we were cut and bruised. No torches. As I sat among the cli... ...ives, here at the tombs, I knew death was not the answer. I walked to the crypt where Lazarus lay. Loose rocks tum- bled underfoot. Wind whipped. A b... ... lay. Loose rocks tum- bled underfoot. Wind whipped. A boulder blocked the crypt and I asked Martha I VOICES FROM THE PAST 194 to have her fri... ...spat on all of us. Ah, sorrowing women, yellow rocks, death, a man in his crypt, cold stone, a hawk screaming... I called again and again. “Lazaru... ...om one to the other, his face birdlike, hawklike, white. He peered at his crypt. Martha hugged him, laughing. People gathered. Some knelt around us.... ...he ground, in the sun. Caretakers at the graveyard claim that one of the crypts has been robbed. Jerusalem I keep hearing the words of an old hy... ...nd. I looked at my right hand. They had healed. The stone that blocked my crypt had been rolled aside. It was dawn when I went out. Outside I found ...

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...f trying to hide anythirtR ... particularly if the techniques you apply to hide information-like cryptography -entaD money, loss 01 time, and constrai... ... resources and too much time. Here, we have enormous variation-most of our big, modem electronic cryptosystems are designed to resist a full scale "ma... ...ands, hopefully on the coordinates specified. he couldn't care less "--l:tbout the resistance to cryptanalysis ofthe coded transmission he used to cal... ... talking to you about during the rest of the week. I happened to start out in this business as a cryptanalyst and a designer of specialized man­ ual s... ...native was simpler, or faster, or cheaper; or merely because it would work. Those of you who are cryptanalysts will find yourselves in an environment ... ... the likelihood thatthe oppositioa will be wi1lincto commithis mute NIOafCIItoit. I hope]'DU DOD-cryptualysts &miJiD&' in our midst will leCOlDize tha... ...will try to fix in your minda a number of rather basic notions or approaches that are applied in cryptography as well as a number of specific techniqu... ...of literature-like the Friedman lectures-which is worth your time and which wiD trace the art of cryptography or ciphering back to Caesar or therabout... ...ystems we're going to talk about is manual systems and the first of these is codes. Professional cryptographers have been talking about codes, using t...

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...even have them frozen. It’s not enough to have yourself sealed in a cryonic crypt, hoping that someone in the future will find a cure for your fatal...

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...hts, they hadn't been able to budge them. Sickness and plague filled the crypt; the oily water caked at everyone's nostrils. The room was lit by t... ...mucus. For a moment, his shape was so vague that they thought one of the crypt's tormented phantoms had spoken. Yolbas was shocked. They all kne...

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...er jagged chunk of his hope. Without the candle, the dank blackness of the crypt made writing impossible. Carefully, Daniel felt around for the co... ...ys did. “Sing for me, man.” The first time, Daniel had thought it was the crypt, a trick of the acoustics, the hollow space echoing his voice back...

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...eed into someone else’s main- frame, Apple owners faced only the hurdle of a cryptic blinking cursor in the up- per left corner of the screen: the PC ... ... software that has emerged from such environments: 45 software to enable en- cryption of data, both stored on a hard drive and transmitted across a ne... ...6. Spafford, supra note 5, at 678–81. 37. Id. at 680. 38. Id. 39. Matt Blaze, Cryptography Policy and the Information Economy, WS., Note... ... 38–42 261 Apr. 5, 2000, available at http://windowsecurity.com/whitepapers/cryptography_Policy _and_the_Information_Economy.html. 40. Increases in c... ... thieves... the anti-theft daemon will shut down and lock the machine if its cryptographic lease ever expires. In other words, if the country operates...

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...igns, but reluctant to use force, he ordered the lady to be imprisoned in the crypt of one of the churches until she should yield. Here, day after da...

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...ookshelf. Chapter Nine The reasons for the specific elements of a myth (the cryptic reason why a given culture might have chosen a serpent god or the... ...r part of the house. She thought, "The human mind when opened up has, at its crypt, humanity." Particularly for herself she loathed the idea of being ... ...in all directions. Sang Huin remembered being sick himself and hearing the cryptic language that his mother and sister spoken around him. That cryp... ...xclusively of chaotic winds and not what she had at one time thought of as a cryptic but sensible Nubian code for the astute transcriber. It was nothi... ...e she hung her bra. To have him know such things made her feel a little less cryptic. She had scoffed at his proposal so it was no wonder that his bit... ... there was another truth that this was the design and essence of life with a cryptic purpose that perhaps she would know with a little bit more age an... ...the American names that his mother and sister gave themselves); cacophonous, cryptic collusion of conversation that the two Korean sorority sisters ha...

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...assed The Cask of Amontillado 6 on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to gl... ...aused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame. At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared an other less spacious. Its walls had been lined wi... ...in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth side the bone...

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...happy if he might hope for the peaceable possession even of this miserable crypt. But that, he knew too well, was impossible. A rival pretender to the... ... the erection of long colonnades and piazzas—single, double, or triple; of crypts, or subterranean** saloons, (and sometimes subterranean gal- *“W ar ... ...o absolutely unintelligible as to interrupt the current of the feeling. **“Crypts”—these, which Spartian, in his life of Hadrian, denominates simply c... ...-cellars, &c. He (and from him Pliny and Apollonaris Sidonius), calls them crypto-porticus (cloistral colonnades); and Ulpian calls them refugia (sanc...

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...ctober twilight gathered. It is a real work of art, a high conception. The crypt, into which I was eventually led captive by an importunate sacristan,... ...ul than itself! Beneath the church of Montmajour is a most extraor- dinary crypt, almost as big as the edifice above it, and making a complete subterr... ... that after we had let ourselves down a good many steepish places to visit crypts and confessionals, we walked across a field to this archaic crucifor...

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..., is an arcade over the pavement: very massive, dark, and low, like an old crypt. The stone, or plaster, of which it is made, has turned quite black; ... ...tered from some Roman churches, and undermine the city. Many churches have crypts and subterranean chapels of great size, which, in the ancient time, ...