Practice question · True or false
A counter-monument that becomes a beloved permanent landmark has, on its own terms, partly failed.
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- Ask what the form was refusing.
- Permanence and doing the remembering on the visitor's behalf.
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True
Why
True, on its own terms, which is an unusual property for a work of art to have. If the argument is that a permanent, complete object lets the visitor delegate the remembering, then becoming exactly such an object is a failure of the mechanism, however much the work is admired.
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