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Her poems have appeared in the 2River View, Harpur Palate, Memorious, Pequod, Small Spiral Notebook, and elsewhere.
2008 » September 2008
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Her poems have appeared in the 2River View, Harpur Palate, Memorious, Pequod, Small Spiral Notebook, and elsewhere.
Erica Wright reads “Elegiac Stanzas” by William Wordsworth 2008
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A number of stories focus on fantastic themes, such as a library containing every possible 410-page text (“The Library of Babel”), a man who forgets nothing he experiences (“Funes, the Memorious”), an artifact through which the user can see everything in the universe (“The Aleph”), and a year of time standing still, given to a man standing before a firing squad (“The Secret Miracle”).
jorge luis borges | the destiny of borges « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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But consider the terrible affliction of "Funes the Memorious," a character in a Jorge Luis Borges short story.
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In the short story "Funes the Memorious," Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges described how a character's inability to forget anything meant he couldn't prioritize the events of his life or make generalizations.
Informed Reader 2007
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Slaw readers with the recollection of Funes the Memorious [1] may recall a posting about a hotel in Chandigarh which advertised a law library [2] as one of its guest features.
Slaw » Buying a Condo? Law Library now a Selling Feature » Print 2007
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Slaw readers with the recollection of Funes the Memorious may recall a posting about a hotel in Chandigarh which advertised a law library as one of its guest features.
Buying a Condo? Law Library now a Selling Feature — Slaw 2007
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Slaw readers with the recollection of Funes the Memorious may recall a posting about a hotel in Chandigarh which advertised a law library as one of its guest features.
Buying a Condo? Law Library now a Selling Feature — Slaw 2007
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Funes, El Memorioso and Funes, the Memorious is as close to a match as English can get.
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Jorge Luis Borges, in his short story "Funes, the Memorious," describes a young man who, as a result of a riding accident, has lost his ability to forget.
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