It's a reference to Murnau's "Nosferatu" where a letter from Orlok is written in a strange ideographic language that includes a picture of a house, evidently relating Orlok's request to buy a house.
>somehow turn an intellectually handicapped gardener into a psychic genius
waddya mean somehow? They got him to understand the Sacred Geometry. I saw it in San Francisco when it came out and the guy next to me said "oh shit! it's the SACRED GEOMETRY!"
Queinnec's attitude was that ALL forms of scoping are useful. In the 80s there was a class struggle between Lexical scoping, which prevailed, and everything else, which Q. detailed.