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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
keeping alive
1. Does "keeping alive" here mean "maintaining things alive and preventing them from being forgotten"??
2. Does "a remembrance of things present" mean "a memorial for present events than past events"?
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.
2. Does "a remembrance of things present" mean "a memorial for present events than past events"?
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 preventing them from being forgotten Yes. red apple a memorial for present events rather than past events I take "present" in this context as "here, at this place", not as "at this time", but you may be right. The phrase itself is, I believe, word play on "Remembrance of Things Past", a literary work by Proust.
- red apple preventing them from being forgotten Yes.
- red apple a memorial for present events rather than past events I take "present" in this context as "here, at this place", not as "at this time", but you may be right.
- The phrase itself is, I believe, word play on "Remembrance of Things Past", a literary work by Proust.
- CJ
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red applepreventing them from being forgottenYes.
red applea memorial for present events rather than past eventsI take "present" in this context as "here, at this place", not as "at this time", but you may be right.
The phrase itself is, I believe, word play on "Remembrance of T
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Oh, yes. You are right, it has an indirect reference to Proust's famous novel.
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