Perfect memory in real life
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 15 Nov 2007
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/4929

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Hmpf MacSlow — 15 Nov 2007, 22:55

Here's an article about (among others) a woman who apparently has the 
kind of perfect memory Severian seems to have:

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-11/memory/foer-text.html

(found via boingboing.net)

Hmpf 

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