Spaniards bewildered and bemused by capital's bizarre Christmas lights

[bin.dare]

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=592327

Post-modern Christmas lights in the form of words dangling in the sky are provoking a considerable rumpus in Madrid, confusing, delighting and annoying locals who stop in their tracks to try to make them out.

Strung along the Recoletos boulevard that bisects the Spanish capital from north to south are groups of seemingly random illuminated words. Patatas, Conejo, Alubias - Potatoes, Rabbit, Beans - they read. Memories, Cinnamon, Silk ... Tenderness, Valve ... People crane perilously from traffic jams to intone the words with wonder and bafflement.

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You will look in vain among the 200 words chosen by the Austrian designer Eva Lootz for anything like Shepherd, Manger, Wise Men or Star in the East. Ms Lootz, a Viennese who settled in Madrid as a teenager 40 years ago, says: "These are free words, that interrelate among themselves. They have no particular message, except that not everyone shares a concept of Christmas that is cloying and hypocritical."

[Xenus Sister]

1. ARGH, I hate "visual" stories that don't include any pictures

It drives me insane.

[Catch22Dem]

2. I was just thinking the same thing

Funny.

[bin.dare]

3. i'll have a look n/t

[mark414]

4. there is almost nothing worse

[Jack_DeLeon]

5. I concur, WTF

how can I judge if the lights look stupid if I cant see them.