Vicarious

What he wanted was a gloating vicarious excursion into blazing restaurants full of seductive girls, marvelous food, wine unimaginably good at fifty cents a bottle, superb drunks without a headache, and endless dancing without short breath.

For the host: rejuvenation of intelligence, vicarious satisfaction.

All of them, through incapacity or timidity or liking, allowed me too free a hand; as if they could not see that voluntary slavery was the deep pride of a morbid spirit, and vicarious pain its gladdest decoration.

When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.

Observation: The machine cannot share that birth experience except in a remotely vicarious way sure to miss important personal nuances.