I'm in a restaurant in Edinburgh. It's after lunch time has been cleared up and it's almost empty. I look down at the wooden floor. I notice a mysterious looking figure cut into the wood's surface. A lot like the figure eight. It's also framed by a square of wood that's more lightly tinted than the rest of the floor. I check around but I don't see any other figures or lighter squares. I begin to wonder if there's something I should know, something more. An eight based sign or code perhaps. It may not even be an eight by design, just some marks that turned out that way. Table or chair leg marks. What might be going on here? All meaning is lost in the twists and curves of quite recent history. I'm standing on a reasonably firm, aged but well enough maintained wooden floor in a French themed Edinburgh restaurant and seeing what looks like a symbol of some sort - or wear and tear set in a pale square frame. That's all I really know.
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