Tuesday, May 10, 2005

I don't know why, but I was thinking about Boston's idiotic Holocaust memorial.

Smoke rises from charred embers at the bottom of these chambers. Six million numbers are etched in glass in an orderly pattern, suggesting the infamous tattooed numbers and ghostly ledgers of the Nazi bureaucracy. Evocative and rich in metaphor, the six towers recall the six main death camps, the six million Jews who died, or a menorah of memorial candles.

My problem is this: The number of Jews who died was not exactly six million. This art is retardedly over-literal and simplistic. I bet the designers think exactly six million Jews were killed.

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