https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/05/20/flower-in-a-crannied-wall/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 01:27:48 -0400<![CDATA[Even familiar objects present so much information it is hard to understand them completely. Alfred Lord Tennyson famously observed that we could not fully know even a &#8220;flower in a crannied wall&#8221; in its &#8220;all in all&#8221; any more than we could comprehend the totality of the universe. This overload is exploited by steganography, an art in which a message is deliberately mixed with many other messages; where one pattern is engulfed in a a number of larger patterns. Messages concealed in this way are hard to detect. The give-away is often the vague sense that something is not quite right about it.]]>Thu, 20 May 2010 05:16:58 -0400<![CDATA[Richard Fernandez]]>https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2010/05/20/flower-in-a-crannied-wall-n189787