of the rainbow once again blazed bright and beautiful - and even more so! - in the form of oil-painted portraits.  Hal took note of those portraits (the creamy, rosy cheeks of the subjects in contrast to the radiant attire they all seemed to wear, again in contrast to the modest pastel backgrounds) and he compared them to the color photographs to the right.  In light of some of the awkward smiles and slightly out-of-focus snapshots he regarded, he wondered if in fact the development of chromatic photography, both celluloid and digital, was any type of genuine progress when it came to leaving one’s image for posterity, at least from an aesthetic point of view.

“Allow me to introduce you to your heritage,” Christopher told him nonchalantly, “specifically your family tree limb...

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