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Jorge Luis Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths and Funes the Memorious

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The Importance of Memory

Borges memorializes a person's life that has no meaning. And yet in the way that he is eulogizing him with these terms of saying like this was a great man, does it then give this person's life meaning? The story on the page the actual fulfillment of a life right. What Funez might have desperately been searching for but never been able to accomplish or find after his horse accident. There are more grains of sand on the planet earth than there are stars in the universe and we don't even think about it because we go to the beach and we're like hey look a pile of sand it's a beach and we can do that. That is not

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