Everyone is able to perfectly memorize one book. Some people choose classics, like The Odyssey, or favorites, like a Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings, others memorize dictionaries or encyclopedias. You choose something unconventional.
No one is sure exactly how it works. We just know that if something fits the definition of a book by regular standards, and you want to memorize it, you can. But only once. And only if you’re sure.
Many people pick literary classics, some pick their favorite books, fewer still pick something practical, like gardening or car mechanics.
I picked all of it.
Everything.
I worked for years to make a book, one singular book, that had everything I could ever want to learn.
How to be a con artist, surviving alone in the woods, surviving alone on an island, how to fly a plane, engineering basics, quantum physics, how to fix a car, how to build a car, how to build a computer, how to code, herbology, politics, healthy living, gardening, farming, dancing, singing, foreign languages, everything.
Anything one person could possibly learn from any kind of book, pushed together, into a collection of over 800,000 words, just for me. It took me years.
As soon as I had memorized the book, which took several more years to read through, I burned it.
I took what I had learned and started over, leaving everything behind. Leaving no trace of the Book of Everything.
There was one very important thing I learned from reading everything I could ever need to know. No one else needs to know it.
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