... of logical mappings, semiotic systems like the encoded map of the library and the purported plan of the murder sequence, but also of correspondingly arbitrary sign systems like numerology, iconography, mathematics and measurement, cryptography, and language itself, or better yet multiple languages, including the spoken word, the language of gems, of flowers, of the landscape, and of gesture. The fundamental tension ... that William and the readers glimpse at the end of the story: An abstract model of conjecturality is the labyrinth. But there are three kinds of labyrinth. One is the Gre...

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