One character in this story is motivated by the inefficiency of the term "thirty-three Uruguayans" to develop new words for the numbers up to twenty-four thousand.That character is said to understand the "tempestuous mane of a stallion" as thenarrator understands a circle or triangle. (+) After receiving a letter telling of
One character in this story is motivated by the inefficiency of the term "thirty-three Uruguayans" to develop new words for the numbers up to twenty-four thousand.That character is said to understand the "tempestuous mane of a stallion" as thenarrator understands a circle or triangle. (+) After receiving a letter telling of hisfather's illness, the narrator visits the title character to retrieve his copies of Pliny's Historia Naturalis and Quicherat's Gradus at Parnassum. The title character was called (*) "chronometer" because during the narrator's first encounter with him on a footpath, the former knew it was ten minutes to eight. For ten points, name this short story about a resident of Fray Bentos who, after falling from a horse, develops total recall, written by Jorge Luis Borges.
One character in this story is motivated by the inefficiency of the term "thirty-three Uruguayans" to develop new words for the numbers up to twenty-four thousand.
Funes, the Memorious (or Funes, el memorioso)                                                                                                                                                                                                                              