I was thinking about this at a conference, recently. It was in this gigantic building complex, that you could walk around all day and get totally lost in and have aching feet.

When you entered the main building, there was a lot going on, people talking as they walk past, billboards and signs, and gigantic video screens and people handing out flyers. It was a great place to find out what is happening and what the news or the schedule for the day was, but it was a rather uncomfortable superhuman, noisy place.

So people would wander off and down the hall into the various rooms, where they could play video games, or talk to artists, or read books in the library, or have a snack, or shop for hats and jewelry, etc. And they would get into conversations with the people there, and often end up spending more time there, than in the big hall.

You had to go through the big hall, to get to the smaller, more-secluded areas, and you'd occasionally wander past, on your way from one secluded area to another, but most people didn't want to spend all day in the hall, having people shout and wave and blink at them. They wanted to pull over to the side, and talk amongst themselves, for a while.

And they didn't just want to pull over to a corner of the big hall and talk in a secret language, they wanted to be in a _different room_.

Seemed apt, somehow.