How many realised that those weren't master plans at all, just aesthetic gestures, notions of what could, but by no means would, ever be?
"I hadn't quite realised how explosive it was," she begins.
"I always thought we had an environmental problem," says Westwood, "but I hadn't realised how urgent it was.
It's only in recent years that I've realised how lucky I was to take this togetherness for granted.
The Tory majority was a lovely surprise for the party, but it still hasn't quite realised how unlovely governing with such a small number of MPs will be.
What would we do if such a regime got into power again?" As a reporter he has witnessed violent clashes between protesting peasants and police and realised how history happens.
But his account of his son's struggles got under the skin of Indians who may never have thought of pollution before, or not realised how bad it was, or even argued that it was necessary if India had to catch up with the developed world.
Ten editions into the anything-goes event, Booklub's founder, artist India Salvor Menuez, is resolute: "Yesterday was crazy, a true marathon of sorts, I don't think I at all realised how tight I made the schedule.
And if the in-hours realised how much work and confusion could be saved by just sending a one-page summary or something like a letter.
But it means a lot to me if finally the realised x-ray underlines how amazing is nature".
