Telephoto lenses are a remarkable invention. A small investment of worldly funds and this simple tool of mans creating would open doors, and windows, into the hidden lives of others—the moments they deign to keep 'private'. Those, those were the twilight moments, where you controlled the situation from afar, lording your power over the ants of civilization with all their pomp and false splendor.
A telephoto lens zooms into the apartment window of a luscious blonde and captures a secret rendezvous. How thrilling!