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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
a remembrance of things present
Does the highlighted sentence mean "a memory that will remember the present things"?
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And here is where these histories now lie entombed in Eisenman’s stelae where they are subject, though, to myriad performances of continuing human life as a multitude of bodies filter through the spaces between them. These are not performances of absolution or ‘reckoning’, penance or purging, but of ‘keeping alive’, of survival: a remembrance of things present.
Context:
And here is where these histories now lie entombed in Eisenman’s stelae where they are subject, though, to myriad performances of continuing human life as a multitude of bodies filter through the spaces between them. These are not performances of absolution or ‘reckoning’, penance or purging, but of ‘keeping alive’, of survival: a remembrance of things present.
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red apple Does the highlighted sentence phrase mean "a memory that will remember the present things"? I would not say so. Memory is always memory of the past.
- red apple Does the highlighted sentence phrase mean "a memory that will remember the present things"?
- I would not say so.
- Memory is always memory of the past.
- I think the point is that when something is monumentalized, it makes the past always present.
- In my opinion, the author is simply trying to show how clever he is by stating his idea with a variant of the title of a famous book by Proust, namely "Remembrance of Things Past" — in spite of the fact that his cleverness may, in fact, obscure the message he is attempting to convey.
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red appleDoes the highlightedI would not say so. Memory is always memory of the past. I think the point is that when something is monumentalized, it makes the past always present.sentencephrase mean "a memory that will remember the present things"?
In my opinion, the author is simply trying to show h
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