A Telegramus Onl I Don't Even Know What a Telegram Is

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On february fourteenth, he got a telegram from bonacidus urging him to return home immediately because his father was not at all well. So after dinner that night, he walked over to funi's house to pick up those two books th he had lent them at the honest little house. And again, he hears, suddenly, i heard irineo's high mocking voice. The voice was speaking latin with morbid pleasure. He later learned they were the first paragraph of the 20 fourth chapter of the seventh book of pliny's naturalis historia. They are about memory and their last words were ana butcher ut nihil non isdem verbis rederetur auditum

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!