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From: mjm710
Date: Mon Mar 10, 2003 12:23pm
Subject: Re: Sunday Telegraph 9/03/03 Can this man read minds? - Complete Version
--- In a previous message uberman_21 wrote:
Brown has
> asked me to write down three memories from childhood on three
pieces
> of paper. One memory is to do with an activity I enjoyed; one a
> hobby I had; and one the name of a friend.
>
> On my first piece of paper I have written 'Athletics'. On my second
> piece of paper, not altogether accurately, given that the only
thing
> I can remeber making out of wood is a breadboard, I have
> written 'Carpentry'. And for the name of my childhood friend, I
have
> put down his surname: 'Quartermaine'.
>
> After I have done this I fold up my three pieces of paper and drop
> them into a bowl. Whereupon Brown, a small and mildly demonic-
> looking man dressed entirely in black, picks out each one in turn,
> sniffs it and adopts a thoughtful expression.
>
> "Now look into my eyes" he says. "And concentrate very hard."
>
Once the words are written down the game becomes less about reading
peoples signals and more about reading the word covertly.
/mike
