it was common knowledge that they possessed far-seeing devices capable of reading the details of unknown aerodromes at a phenomenal distance and there was no reason on gods earth why one of these flying men should not employ one of these very same mechanisms in the frivolous pursuit of his own self gratification and focus it on her particular toilet , peering through her window in the hope of relieving his boredom with a glimpse of her suffering the unrelieved torture of constipation .