During the flight to Tahiti, I had plenty of time to think about the people-less miles of ocean underneath: maybe only a solo sail across those waters, on a raft without a radio, like the one in The Life Of Pi, would actually approximate to the kind of loneliness one fantasised about as a child.
Fashion will always love fantasy, but for now no one is fantasising about the woman two streets away with a bigger wardrobe or fresher highlights.
Vinnie is small, plain, solitary and 54 years old; a foot-soldier in the defeated army of invisible women, beset by self-pity, resigned to her own brave face, the sort of lady who is one minute fantasising horrible punishments for those who have injured her and the next consoling herself with some tasty confection or pouching the complimentary toiletries from the aircraft loo.
Indeed, having sat through the final he deserved, one can only fantasise about Sepp being transferred straight to a spell on Arjen Robben Island, to contemplate his organisation's behaviour over the tournament and during the preparations for it.
Delevingne says that she fantasises about one day punching one – "I'd love to, I really would, I'd be so happy, I dream about it at night" – but she seems happy enough posing for them, which involves much pulling of faces on her part.
Are schools and offices so thrilling that I'm the only one who ever fantasised about this?
In The Tempest, the sacred marriage of Ferdinand and Miranda promises, at last, a marriage worth having – one that Shakespeare fantasised about years earlier in Sonnet 116: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments".
As a small child me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van.
I fantasise that one day I will be able to see the positive change I made when I stand on the other side looking in".
I fantasise that one day I will win the lottery, buy it back and provide my children with the idyllic home that was taken from me.
