(urth) Funes the Memorious

[Mr Thalassocrat]

A Borges story I hadn't read before, about a man with perfect memory:
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/borges.htm

Nice to ponder on what use Wolfe might have made of it in constructing Sev.

But perhaps Sev suffered from hyperthymesia, even though it seems to have
been defined as a condition only recently:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia

"1) the person spends an abnormally large amount of time thinking about his
or her personal past, and 2) the person has an extraordinary capacity to
recall specific events from his or her personal past."
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