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From: killerb_0187
Date: Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:33am
Subject: Re: Sunday Telegraph 9/03/03 Can this man read minds? - Complete Version
I don't know about you guys, but the last bit in this article really
had an overwhelming effect on me. I started feeling my heart beating
quite heavily.
It really goes to show how much we really can learn about people by
simply watching them.
What I want to know is why Derren even sat in the front seat in the
first place. I mean he must have dedected something from the cab-
driver from the start. Simply amazing, that's all I can say.
--- In a previous message uberman_21 wrote:
> Almost complete version. This is the remainder picking up from the
> sentence the previous post left off... "I'm not particularly dark you know," he says at one point. I am
not
> so sure about this. Behind Brown's carefully erected 'winning
> manner', there's something eerily detached about him. But then he
> does lead a strange life: both seeing through people and bending
> them to his will. That must be pretty isolating. It also hints at a
> wish - or compulsion - to make others do his bidding.
>
> When i ask Brown if he is a very controlling person, he bends and
> writhes his neck and steeples his fingers. "I like things around me
> to be just how i like them. That doesn't, i hope, extend to making
> people behave in a certain way. Not when i'm not performing anyway.
> It's more about having my own little corner."
>
> "On the other hand, last night I went to the theatre - alone - and
> there was someone behind me who was having a banal conversation
with
> his wife. Also he was breathing quite heavily. Stuff like that
> irritates the hell out of me. I suppose I really must be a control
> freak if it bugs me that much. You see, what i really would have
> loved was my own provate performance - that would have been
perfect."
>
> He pauses, then says abruptly and with real passion. "More than
> anything else, I hate mediocrity. Just loathe it."
>
> Although single at the moment, Brown has had girlfriends in the
> past - and will again soon, he hopes. I imagine that he'd be quite
a
> handful. After asking for the cheese trolley to be moved - because
> the smell is affecting his enjoyment of the pudding - he talks
> fondly about one ex-girlfriend, but then says that what really
> united them was that she was even more solitary than he is.
>
> Afterwards, we get into another mini-cab. Brown sits in front with
> the driver, which i think is a little strange, but perhaps he's
just
> being friendly. Or else i'm giving off a cheesy aroma.
>
> "So, how lucky are you in that betting shop?" he asks the
> driver. "Eh? How do you know that" says the driver understandably
> startled. "Because i've seen you coming out of it." "Ah...right."
> The driver gives a rueful laugh. "Well, not that lucky, frankly."
>
> When we get out of the cab, Brown says, "For the record i've never
> seen that man coming out of a betting shop." "How did you know
> then?" "Just a guess. His general demeanour. Also, he's recently
> been divorced." "Hold on, How the bloody......"
>
> "Because there was a mark on his wedding finger where a ring had
> been. He's been trying to smarten himself up, too. That's why he's
> been on a diet - his belt had been taken in by two notches.
>
> "So you see," he says, "some of it is just about keeping your eyes
> open."
>
> End of article.
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| 3262: Re: Sunday Telegraph 9/03/03 Can this man read minds? - Complete Ver | Barry | phosjaw | Mon 10/03/2003 | 5 KB |
| 3264: Re: Sunday Telegraph 9/03/03 Can this man read minds? - Complete Ver | mjm710 | mjm710 | Mon 10/03/2003 | 6 KB |
| 3266: Re: Sunday Telegraph 9/03/03 Can this man read minds? - Complete Ver | Barry | phosjaw | Mon 10/03/2003 | 7 KB |
| 3270: Re: Sunday Telegraph 9/03/03 Can this man read minds? - Complete Ver | Blue Chip | cs_bluechip | Mon 10/03/2003 | 7 KB |
| 3271: Re: Sunday Telegraph 9/03/03 Can this man read minds? - Complete Ver | Blue Chip | cs_bluechip | Mon 10/03/2003 | 7 KB |
| 3274: Re: Sunday Telegraph 9/03/03 Can this man read minds? - Complete Ver | mjm710 | mjm710 | Mon 10/03/2003 | 4 KB |
| 3277: Re: Sunday Telegraph 9/03/03 Can this man read minds? - Complete Ver | killerb_0187 | killerb_0187 | Mon 10/03/2003 | 7 KB |
| 3272: Re: Sunday Telegraph 9/03/03 Can this man read minds? - Complete Ver | hypersang | hypersang | Mon 10/03/2003 | 7 KB |
