Funes is first mentioned in an obituary of James Joyce, «A Fragment on Joyce,» published in 1941 in the magazine Sur.3 There, with some measure of sarcasm, Borges says that to read straight through a «monster» like Joyce's Ulysses — a 400,000 - word reconstruction of a single day in Dublin — requires another monster able to remember
an infinite number of details.
Not exact matches
This finely
detailed tulle is embroidered with an
infinite number of light mint sequins and glass beads.
This finely
detailed tulle is embroidered with an
infinite number of light lemon sequins and glass beads.
There are an
infinite number of striking or subtle ways that comic book writers and artists can convey exposition, character
details, psychological states, and simultaneous events occurring in parallel storylines; you can do stuff like expand a single decisive instant so that it fills up six pages, or show Spider - Man swinging through midtown Manhattan in a full - page splash panel dotted with thought balloons that summarize a year's worth
of his life.
The theory holds that, given the universe is
infinite, there must be an
infinite number of histories just like ours, and if it were possible to travel far enough in any direction today, we would eventually come across a universe identical to our observable universe right down to the last
detail.