(+) 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.
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)                                                                                                                                                                                                                              