rhizomI was in Port Bou in 2001, I wanted to see the place where Walter Benjamin tried in 1940 to cross the spanish frontier, was rejected, committed suicide the same night in a little hotel and has been burried.
I wasn't expecting this monumental installation with this sort of epitaph: "Schwerer ist es, das Gedächtnis der Namenlosen zu ehren als das der Berühmten." (It's harder to honor the memory of the nameless than the memory of the famous)
So what is Benjamin's category?

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