Funes the Memorious
A writer sets down what he recalls of Ireneo Funes, a farm boy in a Uruguayan town who could give the exact time without a watch. Thrown from a horse and left paralysed, Funes wakes with a memory that loses nothing — every leaf of every tree he has seen, and every occasion of seeing it — and begins inventing number systems large enough to hold it. A few pages arguing that thought requires forgetting.
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