Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)
Very Bad Wizards
The Library of Babel
This story's, if i compare it to a story that we've done before, i would say it is thea library of babel in a couple of ways. In both cases, from the library where you have every possible book, but there's no order to it. So a it's like, it's almost like having no books. With his perfect memory, as the narrator says, he has trouble thinking now because he's lost the ability to h provide order to his vast, infinite memory. The lack of the ability to catalogue these things is ultimately crippling.
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