Can two people really communicate wordlessly with one another?

Catherine Mansfield, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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I learned about Catherine Mansfield from the Pens and Poison podcast.

Professor Alex Moffat talked extensively with host Lisa Libes about telepathy

in literature. I've included a link to the episode in the show notes. Apparently today's story,

written in 1920, is one of the first and rare instances of communicating telepathically in fiction.

Keep in mind, this was written over a hundred years ago. It reads like contemporary fiction to me. Mansfield was a friend of Virginia

Wolf, and you can really feel her influence as we weave in and out of the thoughts of each character.

It's almost an experimental piece, feeling out the world of unspoken communication.

I hope you like it. And now? Psychology by Catherine Mansfield.

When she opened the door and saw him standing there, she was more pleased than ever before.

And he too, as he followed her into the studio, seemed very, very happy to have come.

Not busy? No, just going to have some tea.

And you are not expecting anybody? Nobody at all.

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