Joan would marry the information my team gathered with the work of the cryptographers deciphering The Enigma.
Alon Orlitsky, Narayana P. Santhanam, and Junan Zhang give Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park by Hinsley and Stripp as a source for asserting that Good and Turing were working on deciphering the Enigma code.
For the human aspect, one turns to Erica Heller's frank but loving memoir of her father, "Yossarian Slept Here," which comes as close as possible, I dare say, to deciphering the enigma behind the obsessive, pitch-black fiction.
Deciphering this can get confusing.
He had no way of deciphering this.
Deciphering this "neural coding" can be an arduous task.
We use a story as a kind of piece of information to orient ourselves, make sense of the loneliness, make sense of what we'll never be able to decipher: the enigma that surrounds us".
And indeed the story of how Turing and his fellow codebreakers deciphered the Enigma Morse code traffic that signalled U-boat movements in the Atlantic is undoubtedly one of the most inspiring in the history of the second world war.
The letter continues: "Turing was one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century, a man whose work on the machines that deciphered the Enigma codes helped win World War II and who was pivotal in the development of modern computers".
In his late 70s, he provided a typically graphic description of the attraction he felt for his own land: "It's a very enigmatic country, and that's a good thing because it keeps us alert, makes us constantly try to decipher the enigma of Mexico, the mystery of Mexico, to understand a country that is very, very baroque, very complicated and full of surprises".
"Last night, the wise tavern master deciphered the enigma," he wrote.
