Being in the know, they sit in judgment on their high horses. Like a lot of monkeys on trees throwing offal down on other animals. To these monkeys, it is a lot of fun. The light fails to pierce the canopy and the animals stuck below can never seem to be rid of the monkeys.

The Privacy of Thoughts

Imagine a world where thoughts could be read irrespective of whether the victim wanted them read or not. What a horrible shift in the balance of power. Reminds me of the Second Foundation of Isaac Asimov.

Imagine now that thoughts could not only be read but could also be influenced. Would the experimentation begin on animals and the comatose or would it happen on normal people? How would the 'subjects' be selected?

At the beginning, would there be any laws governing how this works or would it be at the arbitrary whim of the inventor? A 'god', a megalomaniac who decides what is right and what is wrong and what punishment to mete out. Imagine some such device in the hands of Mengele or one of his descendants...

Umberto Eco

What a way to glorify something as mundane as the swinging of a pendulum. Umberto Eco must be a genius. I have read only a page and a half, but I am already hooked to this book. Taking some time to commit this in writing before hurrying back to the book.

The GRE Teacher

:-)

Lady L.

Fickle, capricious
visceral vicissitudes
what to make of you?

M&M

Method and madness
two sides of the same coin
lady luck decides?

Murdoch

What a horible fellow he is...

Spawn of Mengele

A horrible cocktail of an overdose of testosterone and a feeling of omnipotence. Puerile visions of vulgar vigilantism. Pretensions of invisibility like children that hide behind their mothers' skirts, sticking their tongues out. Only, far far more serious than that. How much more?

Norway

What happened in Norway was horrible. Never expected it to happen of all places, in a Scandinavian country.