On Dec 5, 2007 12:20 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-11/memory/foer-text.html > > MEMORY > By Joshua Foer
> In his short story "Funes the Memorious," Jorge > Luis Borges describes a man crippled by an > inability to forget. He remembers every detail of > his life, but he can't distinguish between the > trivial and the important. He can't prioritize, > he can't generalize. He is "virtually incapable > of general, platonic ideas." Perhaps, as Borges > concludes in his story, it is forgetting, not > remembering, that is the essence of what makes us > human. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget." When i started reading that article, i remembered a short story by Borges... which is later quoted in the article. Didnt know it was possible to actually have a similar medical condition.... That "Fictions" anthology of Borges is easily one of the least recognized masterpieces of modern literature....
