“ […] hermeneutics, or the reading of information in things where perhaps information has not been kept […] where, say, you’ve always felt uncomfortable around a certain fountain downtown… but you’ve only now found out that, all along, it’d been displaying […] the number of murders in the city […]. The number of sidewalks being re-paved in your city is actually a graph of war casualties abroad. You tell this to a friend – who looks at you, stunned, and you never hear from him again. He didn’t believe you.
