The narrator of this story warns that it doesn't have a plot aside from a conversation that took place over the course of a night in an unlit room. The opening sentence of this story is interrupted by
The narrator of this story warns that it doesn't have a plot aside from a conversation that took place over the course of a night in an unlit room. The opening sentence of this story is interrupted by a parenthetical comment by the narrator saying "I have no right to utter this sacred verb." A character in this story invents a number system where each number has an (*) unrelated name, such as "The Railroad" for 7014, and the narrator speculates that he is incapable of abstract thought. Its title character always knows what time it is and quotes Pliny's Natural History in the original Latin. This story's title character gains a remarkable talent when he injures his head falling off a horse. For 10 points, name this Jorge Luis Borges story about a man with amazing mnemonic powers.
The narrator of this story warns that it doesn't have a plot aside from a conversation that took place over the course of a night in an unlit room.
"Funes the Memorious" [or: "Funes el memorioso", "Funes, His Memory"]