Vidal Gore — Eighteen Seventy [3250]

We sat on a wooden platform beside the bronze statue that looks not at all like the Halleck I knew, but then the best statues, unlike the best words, always lie. — Vidal Gore, Eighteen Seventy, 3250

Note

The line about the statue not resembling Halleck cleverly highlights the inherent limitations of art and memory, establishing a tension between reality and representation—an exploration of truth in memorialization.