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THE ART OF THOUGHT READING

by Joseph Dunninger

THE CURTAIN RISES

The orchestra plays a stirring overture…
The house lights go down and the footlights up…
A few strains of a waltz…
And, the curtains part and open…
THE SHOW IS ON
The mentalist demonstrates his control over your mind and what he decides to
do.
Mysterious? Rather! Sensational? Very! Amazing? Definitely! But you, too,
can learn to read the minds of others.
You, too, can receive the projected thoughts from the mind of another…
present modern miracles of the mind… astound by reading sealed messages,
see through walls of steel… read playing cards, selected at random from a
new sealed pack… and many other feats that are so unbelievable that you
doubt your own senses.
You, too, can experience the thrill at each performance of acknowledging the
hearty and enthusiastic applause of an audience.
There is nothing mysterious… there is nothing supernatural, in being a
Reader of Thoughts.
Interested? Of course you are… otherwise you wouldn’t have purchased this
book.
So on with the show… let us get the inner circle of the initiated… learn the
secrets of what makes the Thought Reader so different from other people. But
is he? Not at all. He is only a human being who has studied and developed
talents in receiving and transmitting thoughts. Confidentially, it is a trade…
just like that of a painter, physician, accountant or politician. He must possess
the glib tongue of the politician, and the… er… well, he is somewhat of a
politician in more ways than one.
So on with the show… and later let us visit backstage, behind the scenes, and
learn what we can of the many tests and demonstrations we have witnessed