Is a Little Country, Like the French Do at the Belgians?

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Young bernardo juan, francisco knew the time just perfectly without having to check. He also says his voice was shrill, shrill and mocking. As far as i know, it's not that they're stupid, it's that there maybe a little country, but they're definitely an also ran. So how you look at meta, maybe. Is is like, so knowng colonial. There is a joke that uknow, argentina is a much, much bigger country, both in terms witha physical size and population. And so so they tend to look down on your gayans,. Just asis a kind of a general, sort of joke that that they

David and Tamler return to Borges land to get lost in the infinite, this time with his legendary and tragic character Funes the memorious. What would it be like to have perfect memory, to have full access to every perceived detail no matter how trivial? Would life be infinitely richer, with present experience and memory merging into a perfect Heraclitan flow? Or is William James correct to say that one condition of remembering is to forget, and that “if we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.”?

Plus, we’re sorry, but after 10 years (!) we thought we had the right to get a little self-indulgent and naval-gazey. We do a bit of reminiscing (“though we have no right to speak that sacred verb..”) in the first segment about how the podcast has changed since 2012, and the impact it has made on our lives. Thanks for the memories!