misunderstandings. The Russian bugs rooms and spies by ear, 
finding this quite natural. He is outraged by our visual spying, 
however, finding this quite unnatural.

     The principle that during the stages of their development 
all things appear under forms opposite to those that they 
finally present is an ancient doctrine. Interest in the power of 
things to reverse themselves by evolution is evident in a great 
diversity of observations, sage and jocular. Alexander Pope 
wrote

     Vice is a monster of such frightful mien 
     As to be hated needs but to be seen;
     But seen too oft, familiar with its face,
     We first endure, then pity, then embrace.