Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)
Very Bad Wizards
The Story of a Paralyzed Man
The narrator is obviously fascinated by this guy. But how could that not be fuck and depressing? You know, he's sitting here in a dark room. And the way that he starts talking to him is that funes starts a naming off the cases of prodigious memory that are ctalogued in the naturalist historia. He mentions cyrus, the king of persia, who could call all the soldiers in his armies by name. Mithridates, eupator, who meted out justice in the 22 languages of the kingdom over which he ruled. simonides, the inventor of the art of memory, metrodorus, who was able faithfully to repeat what he
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