other people did not always seem to like making long journeys on their own.it was as if they were afraid to be left alone with their thoughts for too long.but not him.what was that quotation from hamlet ? it was something about being confined in a nutshell , yet feeling that you had an infinite amount of space at your disposal.or that was the gist of it , anyway.he could not recall it exactly.but he had always felt that it summed up his own attitude to being alone with his thoughts .