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Look at this thing! Seen at the lobby of the Arts Hotel in Lisbon, this beautiful matrix of familiar and also baffling icons indicating the services or rules or functions of the various parts of the hotel assemblage. There are some I understand \u2014 but the one with the svelte Martini glass hovering over a sleeping person? What’s that, anyway? You can dream of getting a load on? You can get drunk and pass out comfortably on our exclusive bed linens? And the two people sitting opposite each other with a floating box above them? And \u2014 what!? \u2014 an Internet Explorer icon? Like..um..I guess that’s for the business center or something. Any ideas?
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