ONE<br > hese snapshots were nothing more than an-<br > imal protein and a couple layers of colored<br > dye and silver nitrate that the light got at<br >for a microsecond. They were no more substantial<br >than that--they weren t Anne or even representa-<br >tions of Anne because the animal proteins， the<br >dyes and silver nitrate had no intention of creat-<br >ing representations of her.<br > These snapshots were a fraud because they<br >coaxed from him only microseconds of Anne s life<br >as he had witnessed it and remembered it. And<br >her life could not be measured in microseconds.<br > So， if the police photographs， the photographs<br >taken at her autopsy (and it was not her autopsy<br >at all， was it?) showed a face as placid and blank<br >as air， they showed only a couple hours of the ex-<br >istence of flesh over bone. Then the decay started<br >in earnest and those images， as well， became a lie.<br > Still， he had to take these snapshots out and look<br ><br >