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How did they indicate MBG can read minds?
They didn't. But memory erasing strikes MGB style struck me as a kind of telepathy whether you get detailed information back or not. I mean you concentrate hard and memories erase, and you get at least enough information back to tell how much you have erased. "go deep" "hollow him out". Presumably, there is "Just the skim the surface". Maybe that is not done via telepathy, but it sure sounds like the most probable way.
Similarly MGB keeps showing up out of nowhere when Daddy Dearest summons him. Yeah from behind a curtain or something, but how does he always get there with no one noticeing. I'm tenatively hypothesizing telepathic projection of "don't notice me" - cause it is another mental power.
I'm tenatively hypothesizing telepathic projection of "don't notice me" - cause it is another mental power.
A.k.a. Plateau eyes in Larry Niven's books. And the whole hollow him out thing is like Bester's demolishing. Which in Claire's dad's case is even more effective than murder.
I have a theory on Hiro's growing English vocabulary.
I think he Hiro already can read English, but is finally learning to speak and hear it constantly spoken, so his prior knowledge is helping connect the dots.
Plus he is, of course, awesome. Don't discount that.
I think he Hiro already can read English,
I thought that, too, but then he couldn't read the guidebook after Ando left.
I thought that, too, but then he couldn't read the guidebook after Ando left.
Hmm. Maybe it was badly translated from Japanese. Engrish is hard enough to read to native readers....
He did recognize the word "waffles."
Well, there may have been a picture.
Clearly, I need to start eating in better diners.
Being able to read enough English to follow a comic book or a street sign doesn't necessarily mean being able to read the instruction manual to your Nissan. (I thought it was cute that Hiro apparently can't drive, and thought the instruction manual would tell him how.) I lived in Germany for a while, and I read enough German to get around the supermarket and the roads, but I couldn't speak it or understand it spoken very well, and I couldn't have read anything as complicated as my Audi's manual.
Still doesn't explain why Hiro wasn't speaking a word of English to Issac in his phone calls, though.
