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Certain Personal Matters - The Mode in Monuments
In which a contemplative stroll through Highgate Cemetery reveals a crowded panorama of freshly adorned monuments, marked less by individuality than by the commercial ubiquity of standard urns and obelisks. The narrator reflects wistfully on the loss of artistic dignity and personal expression in memorial sculpture, lamenting the vulgar intrusions of trade and fashion upon the solemnity of remembrance.
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