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“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by the company we keep for we temper our curiosity to fit in with others. They may have particular visions of who we are and hence may subtly prevent certain sides of us from emerging: ‘I hadn’t thought of you as someone who was interested in flyovers,’ they may intimidatingly suggest. Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observations of others; then too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the the companion’s questions and remarks or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for curiosity. But alone in Hammersmith, in the middle of a March afternoon, I had no such concerns. I had the freedom to act a little weirdly. I sketched the window of a hardware shop and word-painted the flyover.”