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Cipher Challenge

Reading the Empty Chair

A literary essay about absent characters whose influence is felt through objects, habits, and other people’s speech.

LiteratureAristocratGeneral simple substitution

Source & status

Origin
Original to Decipher
Solution
Established

Ciphertext

BV OWP VGFPU’A NBVCU ADPVP, ABT DWCQCDOPQA KCOWPQPM CQGJVM C OCLUP APO NGQ APFPV. OWP OPTO VPFPQ PTSUCBVPM OWP FCDCVO DWCBQ. GVP DUCAA MPDBMPM BO LPUGVKPM OG C MPCM QPUCOBFP. CVGOWPQ LPUBPFPM AGEPGVP ZCA PTSPDOPM LJO UCOP. C OWBQM CQKJPM OWCO OWP DWCBQ QPSQPAPVOPM OWP QPCMPQ, BVFBOPM ABUPVOUH BVOG OWP QGGE. OWPBQ OPCDWPQ QPNJAPM OG APOOUP OWP XJPAOBGV CVM CARPM PCDW KQGJS OG NBVM PFBMPVDP. OWPH QPOJQVPM ZBOW SCOOPQVA NQGE PCQUBPQ DWCSOPQA: CV JVJAPM DJS, C VCEP PQCAPM NQGE C QPKBAOPQ, C QPDJQQBVK RVGDR OWCO ZPVO JVCVAZPQPM. PFPQH BVOPQSQPOCOBGV CDDGJVOPM NGQ AGEP MPOCBUA CVM AOQCBVPM CKCBVAO GOWPQA. LH OWP PVM, OWP DUCAA JVMPQAOGGM OWCO QPCMBVK ZCA VGO KJPAABVK ZWCO OWP OPCDWPQ RVPZ. BO ZCA LJBUMBVK C DCAP, VGOBDBVK QPABAOCVDP, CVM CDDPSOBVK OWCO C AOQGVK ZGQR DCV AJSSGQO APFPQCU WGVPAO DGVDUJABGVA.

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