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[harvey_rrit]

As a break from the subject of the 2020 campaign, I want to explain why, in my stories, I have never created a character who could read minds

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[real_marsel]

:)

[meisje_viktoria]

"crawling naked through a Rolling Stones concert set in a junkyard full of fireworks during the zombie apocalypse."

Now that is a story

[ndrosen]

There's a Poul Anderson story about a man afflicted with telepathy; he hears people's grubby secrets and evil thoughts, and he can't turn his mind reading off.

[allaboutweather]

Hopefully he doesn't read dirty minds. XD

[harvey_rrit]

As opposed to...?

[oakmouse]

That's an excellent description!

Now you need to write a story in which a character says that.

[harvey_rrit]

...I do, don't I?

Well, hell.

[oakmouse]

Oh come on, it's gonna be a good story. For one thing, what a hook you've already got for either the beginning or a transition between sections.

[harvey_rrit]

Well, yeah, I don't bother writing a story unless it's going to be good.

Actually I found a place for it in TRIMMERS.

'...Jack asked, with real concern, "Do you read minds or something?" He had given the idea a lot of thought, and concluded it would be an experience not unlike crawling naked through a Rolling Stones concert set in a junkyard full of fireworks during the zombie apocalypse....'