Thus Sean Patrick can walk around naked without ever encountering the people who've just seen him naked. It's a way of letting yourself go without consequences. Saul isn't convinced that the search for reality on the Net is all that shocking. But before there was ever an Internet, I discovered that people would slow down at an accident and crane their necks. When you have somebody threatening to jump off a building they have to cordon off the area to contain the crowd.
People go to watch riots.
But there are things about the new technology that facilitate the impulse. I send him an e-mail one morning, and he calls me within half an hour. They're hoping nudity or something really exciting is going to happen. But Patrick says that's not the point. People see that sometimes I get lazy and my laundry piles up in my room.