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From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: World Contact Day
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:15:56 +0000
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On 16/03/2025 07:58, Charles Packer wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 02:03:54 -0230, David Dalton wrote:
> 
>> Saturday, March 15, 2025 is World Contact Day
>>
>>  From Wikipedia:
>>
>> "World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization
>> called the International Flying Saucer Bureau, as a day on which all
>> IFSB members would attempt to send a telepathic message into space."
> 
> Speaking of telepathy, does anyone know of SF prior to "Slan" by van Vogt
> (1940) in which telepathy is a plot element?

There's a telepathic episode in Charlotte Bronte's
_Jane Eyre_ (1847).

Ther characters might be mutants.  "Am I hideous,
Jane?"  "Very, sir; you always were, you know."