On Titles · 5:53pm Aug 10th, 2023
I asked a neural network about the origin of the title. The network guessed this:
Based on the context you provided, I suspect the title "I Can Read Names in Clouds" is referencing the song "I Can Read the Sky" by Tommy Makem.
The lyrics in the excerpted dialogue seem to play on the lines:
"I can read the sky and the faces of people passing by I can read their minds and their thoughts as they go walking by"
It is a very good guess...