Email to Marie Ange

[x-artie.livejournal.com]

Subject: [Powers training]
Hey,

Yvette caught me flipping through images of my maths text book during a math quiz this morning. Could we work on that a bit? Not so I can cheat at math quizzes or anything but -- I'd read the book, so I'd seen the pages but how quick can I learn them? How many pages can I learn at once and look at again later? And, I don't know, can I look at things in something really fucked up like Arabic or Chinese and still learn them to show someone later?

My powers are so freaking awesome.

Comments

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

To: Artie
From: MA

I am sorry, you did what exactly? You copied your maths book pages from recall without recalling the actual content? (Also you got caught, shame on you. The first rule is do not get caught!)

Yes, we can work on that. We will work on that, because I have these lovely full-color print reproductions of some very impressive old pre-Gutenberg books and they are complex and wordy, and easy to check errors without having to go to a translation service who demands payment in candy.

I agree, your powers are awesome.

[x-artie.livejournal.com]

To: MA
From: Artie.

Yes, that's exactly what I did. I'd read it and everything but I couldn't remember it to figure out my graph.

You're going to break my brain with those aren't you?

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

To: Artie
From: MA

Of course not. Breaking implies that you will not be able to use it again later. This is much more like dislocating it. Painful but we can put it back where we found it later.

Unless you would prefer that I find some prints of Jackson Pollack paintings and have you reproduce those? Although that means much more close inspection to ensure you have reproduced without error, since they are abstract painting and not the written word, and I imagine we would have to graduate you to the written word later anyway because the point is to check your accuracy and to perhaps understand how much you retain through comprehension versus retaining through your being seemingly a human mimeograph machine.

[x-artie.livejournal.com]

To: MA
From: Artie.

A human what?

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

To: Artie
From: MA

Similar to a photocopier but not quite.

[x-artie.livejournal.com]

Yes. That's me.