Jorge Luis Borges illustrated the burden of being unable to form abstractions through a character with perfect memory who remembered every detail of every leaf, cloud, and ripple, and thus found everything perpetually different and confusing, even his own face in the mirror.
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“this is what the great writer Borge brought to life in his short story about a man who couldn't form abstractions instead he had a perfect memory remembering every leaf of every tree”
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