premise: The air felt soupy and thick as if I were swimming through it . Then , as I crossed the reverberating Millennium bridge , for a few magical seconds a brightly lit boat full of dancing people passed underneath . The music and the laughing swelled and then fell away , and for a few moments I stood still and watched them drift slowly down the river . So many people I 'll never know . What did you want to do as you saw the boat go by ?
hypothesis: I wanted them to hurry by because I could n't focus on anything