Memorials
William Mitchell Ramsey said of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, "Because each of the 58,022 names points to an absent referent the wall's script remains a half-formed discourse, or signifiers in search of a concept to signify."
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Famous quotes containing the word memorials:
“Let these memorials of built stone music’s
enduring instrument, of many centuries of
patient cultivation of the earth, of English
verse ...”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“My titillations have no foot-notes
And their memorials are the phrases
Of idiosyncratic music.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)