The Library of Babel

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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.

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!