The Tenth Anniversary of Dogs Li Wing

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Yesterday was the tenth anniversary when we released our very first episode. I dug up some old audio files of us, ye, calling ourselves bad wizards. We were like even more serious than usual in those early episodes. But i think thereis some pretence that we would be a bit more ecademic. E would be educational anmay be edifying or enriching the minds of u listeners.

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!