Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
-- Walter Benjamin
   
Walter Benjamin   Name:
Walter Benjamin
Type:
Critic
Nationality:
German
Birth:
July 15, 1892
Death:
September 27, 1940
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