Disappearing Cryptography: Information Hiding: Steganography & Watermarking, Second Edition
This resource provides a detailed overview of the act of information hiding and the techniques used to do so.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Disappearing Cryptography: Information Hiding: Steganography & Watermarking, Second Edition
Chapter 14: Spreading
A New Job
We open with a shot of a fishing boat where a father and son work on tempting the fish with seductive offers of worms and minnows.
| Father: | It makes me happy to have my son come home from college and stay with us. |
| Son: | Ah, quit it. |
| Father: | No. Say something intelligent. I want to see what I got for my money. |
| Son: | Quit it. |
| Father: | No. Come on. |
| Son: | The essential language of a text is confusion, distraction, misappropriation, and disguise. Only by deconstructing the textual signifiers, assessing and reassessing the semiotic signposts, and then reconstructing a coherent yet divergent vision can we truly begin to apprehend and perhaps even comprehend the limits of our literary media. |
The son reels in his line and begins to switch the lures.
| Father: | It makes me proud to hear such talk. |
| Son: | I'm just repeating it. |
| Father: | A degree in English literature is something to be proud of. |
| Son: | Well, if you say so. |
| Father: | Now, what are you going to do for a job? |
| Son: | Oh, there aren't many openings for literature majors. A friend works at a publishing house in New York.... |
The son trails off, the father pauses, wiggles in his seat, adjusts his line and begins.
| Father: | There's no money in those things. College was college. I spoke to my brother Louie, your uncle, and he agrees with me. We want you to join the family business. |
| Son: | The import/export business? What does literature have... |
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