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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
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they should have kept it right there
The following description is about this sculpture: [img:700]#r1yvd060j2k3swp.jpg[/img]
Does the highlighted sentence mean "if it had been the war time they would have put the barbed wire exactly on the back of people, exactly like what they did to the old man in the sculpture. They would have draw the barbed wire around the whole city, when the Jews were inside the city"?
The old man is shown sweeping the floor with a broom, his back bent pretty low. It was so low that tired tourists got into the habit of sitting on it. A new row of complaints ensued and the hard-pressed municipality decided to deal summarily with this embarrassing situation. They surrounded the Jew with barbed wire. To me this desperate attempt to repair the desecration by committing a new one was the best possible memorial to what had been done to the Jews and they should have kept the barbed wire right there. Possibly unroll it round the entire city of Vienna while they were at it. It took a long time for Austria to face up to its own responsibilities in the war and this turned out to be the perfect monument to what they had done because they had done it again.
Does the highlighted sentence mean "if it had been the war time they would have put the barbed wire exactly on the back of people, exactly like what they did to the old man in the sculpture. They would have draw the barbed wire around the whole city, when the Jews were inside the city"?
The old man is shown sweeping the floor with a broom, his back bent pretty low. It was so low that tired tourists got into the habit of sitting on it. A new row of complaints ensued and the hard-pressed municipality decided to deal summarily with this embarrassing situation. They surrounded the Jew with barbed wire. To me this desperate attempt to repair the desecration by committing a new one was the best possible memorial to what had been done to the Jews and they should have kept the barbed wire right there. Possibly unroll it round the entire city of Vienna while they were at it. It took a long time for Austria to face up to its own responsibilities in the war and this turned out to be the perfect monument to what they had done because they had done it again.
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No, I believe it means that the monument with the barbed wire present portrayed more accurately what had been inflicted upon the Jews.
- No, I believe it means that the monument with the barbed wire present portrayed more accurately what had been inflicted upon the Jews.
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No, I believe it means that the monument with the barbed wire present portrayed more accurately what had been inflicted upon the Jews.
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The (inadvertent) desecration of the memorial to the desecration of the Jews during the **** regime created an even more poignant memorial. Not only should they have kept the barbed wire in place, but they should have made it even more dramatic by enclosing the entire city in barbed wire.
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@AlpheccaStars So does it mean "given what they have done during the war time, the barbed wire around the sculpture is not enough, but they should have even enclosed the whole city in barbed wire"?
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red apple, but they should have even enclosed the whole city in barbed wire"?The writer is being hypothetical.
For the punishment to fit the crime, the monument to recognize the abuse, no amount of barbed wire would be sufficient because crime was so heinous and the city was so guilty.
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And "while they were at it" in the original text refers to the Jews, doesn't it?
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red appleAnd "while they were at it" in the original text refers to the Jews, doesn't it?No, "they" refers to the hard-pressed municipality who ordered the barbed wire to be placed around the sculpture.
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