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The Perfect Memory of Saverian
The most important thing about this story though is I think that it gives us unescapable proof that Saverian is bullshitting. If he truly had the perfect memory as it is articulated by Borhace here he would never have gotten out of the Mitaccian Tower because they would have just put him in a dark cell and said this is the best we can do for you apprentice Saverian. But maybe it does add some legitimacy to Saverian's claim of in a sense I have always been insane right.
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