Jessica Mein
The Memorious Funes
A re-structuring of Borges' short story Funes, The Memorious. Funes has infinite memory; his description of a day that passed lasts longer than the day itself. This over-description and obsessive attention to detail (and my repetitive act of re-reading the story) prompted me to physically shift the text and re-configure it placing the last sentence then first sentence, second then second to last, and so on...
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