I sit in Russell Square and watch a child chasing pigeons. What does this mean? Does this happen in nature? Do other animals chase smaller animals? Why do children do it? Children are basic and unapologising humans, pure and untainted by societal notions even. So what does this act say about people, about humanity? Why does the child do it? Is it power, one's will on another? Is it sadism, delighting in the panic it causes? Does it believe it's playing with the birds? I must have chased birds when I was a child. Why don't I chase them anymore?