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same way, this photograph of my father as a child: noth-ing to do with picturcs of him as a man; but certain de-tails, certain lineaments connect his face to my grand-mother's and to minę—in a sense over his head. Photography can rcveal (in the Chemical sense of the term), but what it reveals is a certain persistencc of the spccics. According to Leon-Picrre Quint, on the death of tlie Prince dc Polignac (son of Charles X’s minister), Proust said that "his face had rcmained that of his lineage, anterior to his individual soul.” The Photograph is like old age: even in its splendor, it disincarnates the face, manifesrs its genetic essence. Proust (again) said of Charles Haas (the model for Swann), according to George Painter, that he had a short, straight nose, but that old age had turned his skin to parchmenc, revealing the Jewish nosc bencath.
Lineage reveals an identity srronger, morę interesting than legał status—morc rcassuring as well, for the tliought of origins sootłies us, whereas that of the futurę disrurbs us, agonizes us; but this discovery disappoints us because even whilc it asserts a permanence (which is the truth of the race, nor my own), it bares tlier mysrerious difference of beings issuing from one and the same family: what relation can there be between my mother and her ancestor, so for-midable, so monumcnral, so Hugolian, so much the in-carnation of the inhuman disrance of the Srock?
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