If ILX was the invention of someone in a Borges short story...

The exile who with melting heart remembers his expectations of happiness sees them sub specie aeternitatis, completely forgetting that the achievement of one of them would exclude or postpone all the others. In passion, memory inclines towards the intemporal. We gather up all the delights of a given past in a single image; the diversely red sunsets I watch every evening will in memory be a single sunset. The same is true of foresight: nothing prevents the most incompatible hopes from peacefully coexisting. To put it differently: eternity is the style of desire.

all these posts are destroying this thread. soon it will be lost forever ;_;

Jill Price, the memorious.

whoah

Pretty grim, eh? But curious.

I, otoh, can forget things I was doing and saying mere seconds ago.

Funny, I was just re-reading "Man and his Symbols" and Jung of course explains the point of concious v subconcious memory as a protective barrier in the mind, because otherwise we'd remember everything all the time and be overwhelmed and confused. And this woman has just that, it seems.

I cant imagine how disorienting it must be.

I wish I could remember nothing but facts.

Amazing. I wonder what other Borges creations are going to have real life analogues?

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http://gizmodo.com/the-fake-places-that-only-exist-to-catch-copycat-cartog-1695414770

On a different note, Jill the memorious needs to experiment with marijuana. Apparently its active compounds mimic substances associated with forgetting and fit well into the same receptors.