Ballard certainly fits, and is quite relevant, but at the time I thought it was doing a kind of Waiting for Godot - but there s probably a more relevant Sienfeld episode to that. It also makes me think of Borges in general, and specifically The Library of Babel. There s also that movie, The Cube. I read once that malls are designed to be locaterless, intentionally confusing, timeless spaces.
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