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Don't laugh - there are 600 of them, each along a seemingly endless corridor of marble and travertine.
Modernist alienation takes on a gigantic twenty-first-century form, the endless corridors of apartment blocks stretching imperceptibly into the gloom.
On a big ship with endless corridors, the less mobile might want to think about a cabin near the lifts.
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