What is the most important sentence in this fictional story? Why?
I think the most important sentence in Jorge Luis Borges’ Funes the Memorious is this one: “The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.”
This is an interesting thought to me because I interpreted it as a way of explaining the human flaw or “sin” of laziness. It reminds me of procrastination and how students always try to leave things until last minute. But on a larger scale, it touches on the fact that we are immortal in our memories and even people’s memories of us. And so, with all things learned and remembered from past lives, we might someday be able to know all. I also disagree with this, however, in that humanity will never know all things. I believe we are too small, too insignificant in this universe to be able to know all there is to know. Humans may one day know all that is possible for us to know, but never all.
