Everything has meaning, sometimes annoyingly so, as its heroine, Caroline, later complains when she takes its "author" to task: "It's exactly as if someone were watching me closely, able to read my thoughts; it's as if the person was waiting to pounce on some insignificant thought or action in order to make it signify".
There's the possession of everybody in the town by this thing that forces them to change who they are; Gard's own addictions; Bobbi's possession, and forcing of painkillers on Gard to be able to read his thoughts; Gard's final decision, which reads like a cry for help, a suicidal howl that destroys the lives of everybody he's ever known.
Pick it up again, and Mantis will dodge all attacks you throw at him, as he's able to "read your thoughts".
Some researchers claim to be near to using f.M.R.I.'s to read thoughts.
At times she even claimed to be able to read her father's thoughts from small movements of his mouth and eyes, calling into question the extent to which he was really "completely" locked in.
Telepathic Connections Josh Goldsmith said he was browsing through a bookstore one day, lingering over the self-help titles offering chicken soup for whatever ails you, when he opened a book and came across the question: "Would you like to be able to read your lover's thoughts?" He took it to Cathy Yuspa, his professional and romantic partner, and they hashed over the idea.
Computer scientists there say a simple and cheap headset will be able to read your brain waves to verify your thoughts — and save you the work of typing in a password.
"Saying that patience is needed to read those books both demeans the books, and suggests that you're not mentally able to read them … Here's a novel thought: stop acting like a book is a mountain.
But in this instance, the book was so damn good that my immediate thought was, "If everybody was able to read what I just read, the world would be a much better place".
