HOW TO MOVE FROM ONE STATE TO ANOTHER [the state of stupidity to the state of idiocy or imbecility] - All one needs to do is look out any window that's intact. See the man in the fur coat? He's your friend, but you just don't know it yet. Ask him for a shoe string or a diamond ring or any other inconsequential thing and he'll give you what it takes to gas to death snakes; to drain massive lakes; to end the devastation of Earth-shaking quakes; to swallow whole cakes; to spot forgeries and fakes.