In addition to normal speech, whether in English or in their own tongue, the Janos people, or at least some of them, have the capacity to transmit visual images, by a form of telepathy, from their minds directly into the mind of another person. These images are sharp and clear, like a film with colour and movement; they are not in the least vague or insubstantial. They look like actual scenes, with the usual Janos quality of pictorial realism.
This technique was employed to show things for which a film was not available: Frances saw the power station and the 'flagship' of the fleet by this means; and both John and Frances and perhaps Natasha were given spellings of words by a succession of single English capital letters, dark on a light ground, shown one after another, rather less than a second apart.
Normal conversation was in ordinary sound speech: John, in a hypnotic re-experience of a speech sequence, checked up by my request on lip movements, and said afterwards that the lip movements of the Janos speaker corresponded to the English words that John was hearing him speak.
Nevertheless, I have a strong impression, from certain things Frances has said in follow up sessions, that the ordinary sound speech is reinforced by a telepathic communication of the underlying meaning. To some extent, I believe this is often so in normal Earth speech, between persons who know each other well and think alike; but this was sharper and clearer.
To give an example: when I questioned Frances about a phrase used by Uxiaulia - "together we can conquer all space" I remarked that it did not seem to go with their professed renunciation (avkall) of war, she at once corrected me, saying that he had not meant by that, conquest in the military sense, but in the sense of space exploration. Uxiaulia is a space explorer pilot by profession, so this may well be correct; nevertheless it was said in a context of attack and defence, so that my query was a reasonable one.
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