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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.
  

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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.

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red appleDoes 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 h