Next, he tweeted a picture of Clinton winking, which he interpreted as "a mild stroke".
Without disregarding the basic Confucian virtue, benevolence, Yamaga emphasized the second virtue, righteousness, which he interpreted as obligation or duty.
But that was nothing compared to the fury he felt over Britain's foreign policy which he interpreted as an overt onslaught against the Muslim world.
It was a western story, set in Wyoming in 1892, about the Johnson County War, which he interpreted as a government-sanctioned slaughter of immigrants.
He was unyielding in his insistence on judicial independence, which he interpreted as requiring protection of the judges from the impact of public criticism.
Ell's resulting estimate, 135, which he interpreted along with the Scotland figure as balancing the lower figures, should have been 73.
For "Julius Caesar," which he interprets as a contemporary political thriller, the notes include news reports of coups and assassinations, like the killing of the Congolese president, Laurent D. Kabila, in January.
Finally, there is Gregorian chant, appealing to Mr. Golijov for its association with the ceremony of the Eucharist, which he interprets on a human plane as an uncompromising giving, "where you give yourself and have to be totally naked".
In the book, Mr. Littlefield observed, "Dorothy sets out on the Yellow Brick Road wearing the Witch of the East's magic Silver Shoes," which he interprets as a parable about the use of gold and silver as money.
He says he now specializes in "good, clean, contemporary American food" at the Harrison, which might be exemplified by his biscuits and gravy, which he interprets using scallion biscuits and a chowder gravy made with chorizo and three types of clams.
To take one famous instance: it is, crucially, not Inspector Javert's personal malice or mercilessness, as legend has it and the musical suggests, that drives him to hunt down Jean Valjean; it is his absolute commitment to justice, which he interprets as a commitment to rules and their administration, to the parallel paper universe of absolute laws.
