Now older, she stares at the gorgeous young women in New York, wondering if she's right to presume how they will feel at her age, "when life is less unthinking and more deliberate".
Up there, in the dizzy blue heights, we feel our solitude, our vulnerability, our reliance on unthinking machines more acutely than when lost in the bustle of the ground-level world.
This is all the more deplorable because Cameron's unthinking policy on Syria can only have fuelled the rise of support for jihadism among British Muslim youth.
When viewed as a set, the images look less like people taking on unthinking poses, and more like individuals expressing themselves, in a lovely, languid dance.
So, The Huffington Post reached out to black Americans like Verdis Daniels (also the congressmen in the above video), and asked them to share daily experiences on the wrong side of racial interactions, from casual, unthinking slights to more deliberate discrimination.
Despite having spent the last two years of his life reporting on the destruction wrought, in part, by the government's unthinking push for ever more homeownership, he still wasn't willing to abandon it completely.
I have always been especially scared by them because, more than other monster, they represent our most unthinking and relentlessly hungry selves.
At his earliest meeting with Tintin, in "The Crab with the Golden Claws" (1941), the Captain is little more than a lush, with a drunkard's unthinking bravado but few other virtues; as is so often the case, it took the author a while to realize the potential of his own creation.
Of the great cities of the world, only Rome and Cairo can even begin to rival Delhi for the sheer volume and density of historic remains; yet every year, more ruins disappear, victims to unscrupulous property developers or unthinking bureaucrats.
Overall there is greater control over behaviour and people may find they can stop and think more easily, rather than acting in a more impulsive and unthinking way.
