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Memory's Touchstones
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Whatever resolution will be found to the controversy over the proposed Berlin monument commemorating the murdered Jews of Europe, it is already clear that, in large-scale public efforts of this kind, the process itself is becoming as important as the outcome. A kind of virtual monument has already been built, the residue of all the planning, scheming, competing. Regardless of the result, it will carry for a long time marks of the original debate.
This may not be a bad thing at all. For while I personally enjoy looking at those strange stones which mildly disturb a crowded city landscape, suggesting like ancient tombs that the busy passerby should pause and reflect a little, it …
