Borrowed Socks

I have borrowed a lot of socks in my time, often without returning them. I must recommend it to anyone who has never borrowed socks before, because it gives one a supreme sense of connectedness with the world. It's as though you're looking at it all through someone else's eyes. Or feet.

In fact, it reminds me of that most sacred act of worship, boko-maru. It comes from the greatest religion I have ever heard of.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokononism

Books vs Movies

Books show you what characters are thinking. You read their imagination. You're inside their head, with all of their biases, desires, and imperfect information. 

Movies only show you what they're doing. Someone's walking. A couple are kissing. Maybe they're in love. Maybe not. Movie characters are passing strangers; people you meet as you wander about. Characters in novels are friends who have told you their darkest secrets.

That's why books are worth more than movies, and why people lament their favourite novels being made into movies. Insight. In one you hear a mind. You hear their thoughts. You are them and you become them. In the other, you watch like a stranger.