reading!

"when we did see each other, we were so bashful, so modest, that we were much farther apart than when we did not see each other. Then when we were apart again and the unpleasantness of this mutual uneasiness was forgotten, our having seen each other acquired it's full significance; then in our dreams we began exactly where we had stopped. So it was at least with me.

every person who has a fixed idea is a virtuoso on one string."