This quote from the book, though, about museums and memorials, was money:
I was surrounded by the specter of 10,000 people moving through the galleries in a manner I had witnessed elsewhere, in other exhibitions: examining, with wistful, beatific expressions, each artifact…emblems of a shameful chapter which had, to them, closed; shaking their heads but ultimately marveling—often with childlike fascination—at how such a thing could have happened, when, amidst calls for it to never happen again, it is happening all the time everywhere.
Shimoda, Brandon. The Afterlife Is Letting Go. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2024.
