"But let him be praised for what he was, and not an idealized vision of what he never was." I just read Speaker for the Dead again--I hadn't picked it back up

"But let him be praised for what he was, and not an idealized vision of what he never was." I just read Speaker for the Dead again--I hadn't picked it back up again since high school--and I think Card argues we kill the dead all over again when we idealize them instead of confronting who they really were. An extreme thesis, but one worth considering.