“Separated at Birth?” — that is the title of a game described by Wikipedia as the light-hearted activity of pointing out people who are unrelated but bear a notable facial resemblance. This usually involves celebrities.
I was reminded of this when, having finished the first chapter of Jonah Lehrer’s “Proust was a Neuroscientist,” I set the book aside and in the process took notice of the author’s publicity photo on the book jacket. Something about the picture resonated with me. What caused the buzz in my brain?
This:
Intentionally or not, when composing the shot, the photographer, Guy Jarvis, captured a look similar to that of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Jonah Lehrer and the unknown young woman could be distant cousins, separated by an ocean and three and a half centuries.
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