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Jewish religion has no time for it.
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Islam has no time for it whatsoever.
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But it just shows you that the scale of the catastrophe
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of the human loss of the First World War challenged conventional institutions
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and frameworks for understanding what was happening.
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If séances are a kind of collective remembrance,
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they created, as it were,
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the precedent for the ones that have left their most powerful marks,
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not only on Europe but beyond it, as well.
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These are war memorials.
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The need to create a substitute tomb, a substitute place
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in front of which to mourn,