Nineteenth-century literature is full of codes and ciphers--who can forget Sherlock Holmes' wonderful dancing men?
This resilience is unusual, given that other ciphers from the period have yielded their secrets.
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But with the characters acting as ciphers for their countries, perhaps that was only to be expected.
Ovshinsky is completely heedless of the trail of woe behind him, speaking in ciphers when pressed to defend his track record.
"Then, the challenge was to secure allied codes and ciphers" he said.
Avoiding close-up, full-frontal or backview portraiture, Mr Gursky catches people as constituent dots or ciphers in an encompassing landscape or in the urban mass.
Nor do Catherine, Miss West and the others come alive under Mr Mishra's pen: they are ciphers to us as well as to him.
Contestants compete in five categories (Beat Juggling, Written, Ciphers, A Cappella and Freestyle) with the aim of proving their superiority over a field of competitors.
Apart from Peeta and Rue, the other Tributes remain shadowy ciphers.
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The youngsters serve as ciphers for their city, a schizophrenic community shaped by its past, confused by its new status and unsure where it is headed.
Yet the double absence makes it impossible to care whether these two ciphers will, or will not, in the end get together as one glorious nullity.
Even in Britain the new Scottish and Welsh parliaments lack many powers, and most national parliamentary members are ciphers, voting the way their Whips tell them to, lest they be booted out of their party.
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