Abbé Faria’s intellect continues to astonish. In this passage, he reveals how he recreated his world from memory: transforming shirts into parchment, languages into tools, and his mind into a living library. With no books and no ink, he still summons the voices of Shakespeare, Dante, Montaigne, and more.
Where others rot in solitude, Faria studies, refines, and prepares.
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