https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n07/thomas-laqueur/the-pocahontas-exception Created Fri, 17/03/2023 - 00:00 Updated Fri, 17/03/2023 - 00:00 We can’t bear to come from nothing. We come from the dead, from our dead, in whatever mysterious ways we imagine that bond. Genealogy is a form of communion with those we take to be ancestors.