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La machine à lire les pensées
A French literature professor arrives as a guest lecturer at a fictional American university and quickly becomes friends with a physics professor who has invented a "psychograph" -- the titular thought-reading machine.
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A French literature professor arrives as a guest lecturer at a fictional American university and quickly becomes friends with a physics professor who has invented a "psychograph" -- the titular thought-reading machine. When the machine goes on the public market, "life becomes more complicated and considerably funnier" (Newsweek, New York, May 30, 1938).
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