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Thought
I was just wondering if transclusion was possible in Obsidian. It does appear to be so! Game changing foraggregator and Surveys.
Motivating topics: Gruen Transfer, Mazes and Labyrinths - Their History and Development by Matthews Survey of Being Lost
As a store owner what rules exist that wouldn’t allow you to trap your shoppers in a maze-like consumer environment? It seems like if you were a complete madman, you could maximize the maze-like quality of a shopping experience. People would stop shopping there, “I’ve stopped shopping at Maze-mart because last time I was truly afraid. I went in to get eggs and was lost for hours.”
The aisle structure of the modern supermarket does have a geometric maze-like quality. If you as an owner were to shift around various shelves so that they didn’t just form parallel lines but cut off routes and lead to dead ends, you can easily adapt this style into a maze.
The most devious way might target a single shopper in a maze. The aisles would morph around this shopper.
I’ve been in Ikea numerous times in my life, and each one has a degree of disorientation and maze-like quality to it. I recall directional arrows on the floor. The various artificial domestic settings also contributes to a strange atmosphere when lost, like some scattered familiarity.