Publisher's Synopsis
Finally, interpretation is mentally mediated, rather than mentally immediate. When Hubbard first observes the window lock, he simply sees that the lock is broken in a way that he doesn't just see that someone has attempted to create the misleading appearance that the window was Swann's method of entry. Items are objects of interpretation rather than, say, objects of perception when they are, in Clifford Geertz's formulation, "on their surface enigmatical" their import is not immediately apparent.27 NHL defenseman Mike Green's vivid discussion of the intimacy a hockey player needs to have with his stick puts the point into relief: "If I pause to interpret what I'm sensing when the puck is on my stick, that extra split second can be the difference between a shot and a goal, a win or a loss or getting my head taken off. So the stick has to feel like a piece of you
