And just like digital currencies, hashtag activism is vulnerable to shadowy intrigues and corrupting influences.
"La Celestina," a collaboration between the production company Erratica, the composer Matt Rogers, and the Chicago puppetry company Manual Cinema, is a fantastical exploration of the shadowy sexual intrigue of Fernando de Rojas's fifteenth-century Spanish novel.
After all, hammams are places of steamy intrigue, full of shadowy movement and unreliable light, where an assembly line of large, damp attendants wearing only bikini underwear vigorously uses well-worn kese cloths to scrub dead skin off strangers.
The verdict came after about six hours of deliberations over two days in a two-week trial that was full of intrigue, and evidence about the shadowy world of international arms dealing.
While the Swiss or Panamanian bank account is a staple of spy novels and real-life intrigue, they are normally associated with shadowy arms dealers, billionaire oil traders, or nefarious drug merchants.
For any fan of palace intrigue, the prospect of Putin losing power in some shadowy Kremlin coup as a result of all this is, however remote, fairly riveting.
Ably played by Benedict Cumberbatch, this Sherlock surrounds himself with dangerous criminals, a former CIA contract killer, a landlady with a shadowy past, and an emotionally injured Dr. Watson (Martin Freeman) addicted to violence and intrigue.
But the shadowy figure eventually became a centerpiece as their best-selling book was mapped out with book editors intrigued by newsroom mentions of their Deep Throat source of last resort, the shadowy synthesizer of fragmented leaks and clues.
