Unfortunately, it is this component that Marcel was hoping to find in memory. Without this tradition, an object or experience can not be termed authentic, thus, Marcel is unable to find the true essence he seeks. Memory's inherent process of reproduction forces it to divorce an experience from a particular situation, erasing its tradition, and producing an inauthentic representation. Memory is then subject to the changes that occur when something is freed from a specific place and past, in can be altered. It becomes disconnected from its historical referent and becomes a fluid symbol.
Memory is then able to represent a multiplicity of different meanings.
As with photography and memory, language is also in a constant shift of interpretation, having lost its essence, or truth, in its shift to a symbolic mode of representation. Therefore, memory and language share a similar quality of transformation that is endless. By looking at the translation of one language into another, one can better understand the process and intentions that are occurring when one remembers an experience and attempts to translate it to the present time period. To clarify, what is known of memory is that it is a changing entity. It can not be viewed as an objective picture of the past, but a constantly changing evolution of the original experience.