My high school senior year english teacher was kind of an odd fellow, though i now believe he relished and even cultivated the wacky. Funes never spoke these injurious words, but i am sufficiently certain i represented for him those misfortunes. In order to convey the workings of the memory as he understands it, borges portrays an individual whose memory functions in a precisely inverse fashion. Highbrow, dandy, city slickerfunes did not utter those insulting words, but i know with reasonable certainty that to him i represented those mis fortunes. I remember him i have no right to utter this sacred verb, only one man on earth had that right and he is dead. Explicitly, borges refers to his piece only as a long metaphor of. Yet in funes, the memorious, perspective of memory is absent. He had not written it down, for what he once meditated would not be erased. Discussion of themes and motifs in jorge luis borges funes, the memorious. Ireneo lived with his mother, at the edge of the country house of the laurels. But on the other hand his knowledge enriches his work to a great extent. Pedro leandro ipuche has written that funes was a precursor of the race of supermena maverick and vernacular i will not argue the point, but one must not forget that he was also a street.