"Ruin Or Landmark"? Black Bodies As Lieux De Memoire in the Sound and the Fury (Critical Essay‪)‬

For if we accept that the most fundamental purpose of lieux de memoire is to stop time, to block the work of forgetting, to establish a state of things, to immortalize death, to materialize the immaterial--just as if gold were the only memory of money--all of this in order to capture a maximum of meaning in the fewest of signs, it is also clear that lieux de memoire only exist because of their capacity for metamorphosis, an endless recycling of their meaning and an unpredictable proliferation of their ramifications.