**WHAT HAPPENED:** "Perhaps she was a servant from some remote part of the Citadel. Perhaps she was a resident of the city, who for gain or because of some old connection with our guild consented to play the part; I do not know." **WHAT I THINK HAPPENED:** He's guessing. **WHAT'S WEIRD:** I counted: the man with total recall says "perhaps" 589 times across the four books. Perfect memory shouldn't need hedging — unless the hedging IS the memory, marking every spot where he knows more than he'll say or less than he claims.

— In our words · Source: The Book of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe)