Ten things Gadling readers love about airports

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Okay, I'm biased. (http://tinyurl.com/378je9a). But I'm fascinated by airports for the same reason Jay is, up there at number 6.

They're liminal - on the edge of things. And they're socially weird. People don't live there. People don't generally go there for fun. People spend hours and hours there, but always moving, so they usually don't bond with anything. (Apart from chewing gum when they sit down, or blobbed ice-cream underfoot). They're huge, *huge* places, but in the imagination they're really small - an exquisitely painful hurdle on the way from A to B, and part of neither. And they're places where we only linger reluctantly (look at how many of those points in the list are about moving through or moving on).

No wonder we're taught to hate them.

I think that attitude deserves a second glance. There's much to be fascinated by.

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