"Oh I see...IMAGESCAN, OBJECTSCAN... what about INTERPSCAN?"
"That's the most complicated function: I haven't learned how it works yet, " I admitted. "But the online manual says it's for interpreting symbolic information systems, say, an alien computer's memory banks: it'll also translate spoken languages...
"Hmmmm...Felix would have loved it, another [purse-ian] triangle,"
she muttered to herself as she played with the 
scanuter.
"How's that again, I asked. "Preston had a purse in... what triangle? Bermuda?
"No, no," Dana corrected me. "One of Preston's favorite sources, a nineteenth- century scientist named C. S. Peirce, spelled P-E-I-R-C-E, but sounds like `purse'; he analyzed the whole universe in metaphysical patterns of three."
"As in Father, Son and Holy Ghost? Never heard of him," I said dismissively.
"No, silly as in Shifting Image [raw being], Reacting Object and
Evolving Interpretation..."(2)