The result is a document that, with column after column of letters, sometimes looks more like a report card than a tax return.
The first page of my notebook holds a column of place names, some cuneiform letters taken from a tomb in the British Library and a collection of oddly-named English meadow flowers (wet-the-bed, yellow rattle, adder's tongue fern).
On the gentler side were responses to a column of Oct. 21, 2001, a letter to my 3-year-old about our family's decision to persist in the city despite anthrax scares and other threats.
The monthly column of letters from readers was edited by Susan Kirby.
Reading the column of letters which immediately precede the symbols spells the phrase SALT AL'S STREET, which is the answer to the metapuzzle.
It's set into a slope, and entered through a trench, after which the space opens up into the interior of the ring, around which ordered columns of letters structure a typographic blizzard of lost men.
The second subtest, Planned Codes, contains two items, each within a matrix of 7 rows and 8 columns of letters with empty boxes.
As wreaths of flowers pile up in front of Dr. Favaloro's research foundation, newspapers are publishing extra columns of letters to the editor in a deluge of long, sorrowful and often bitter diatribes blaming the entire society for the suicide.
"I wouldn't say I felt superior... but using newer technology always felt like taking a step back – even though making music with the Amiga involved typing endless columns of letters and numbers.
Nearly every leading newspaper or important weekly has run leading articles on the subject lately, following up with columns of letters from readers.
Unfortunately, the box is not marked as clearly as it could be (you can kind of see this in the example, at right) and may cause some confusion when you are staring at columns of letters and numbers.
