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architecture's awkward small talk, a room whose only job is to lead somewhere better
means A passage or corridor inside a building that connects rooms and leads from one place to another, often including an entrance area.
from A plain compound of 'hall' and 'way.' 'Hall' descends from Old English 'heall,' a large roofed space — once the grand central room of a house where everyone gathered and feasted. 'Way' comes from Old English 'weg,' a path or road, a cousin of Latin 'via.' So a hallway is literally a 'hall-path' — though over the centuries the proud feasting hall shrank into the narrow strip we now hurry through to reach somewhere more interesting.
- latin root
- corridor means a place for running messengers
- hotel trick
- long ones feel longer to slow guests down
- acoustic ghost
- narrow walls bounce footsteps into eerie echoes
- feng shui
- long straight halls supposedly let energy escape
the stanley hotel corridor — inspired stephen king's the shining, featured in kubrick's film with the famous carpet pattern
versailles hall of mirrors — 240-meter long hallway at the palace of versailles with 357 mirrors, site of the 1919 treaty signing