Funes, the Memorious - By Jorge Luis Borges - Athenaeum Library of Philosophy
it'd maybe be something like this.
memory is intertwined with experience in/of the present. not being able to limit it would mean not being able to function at all. what defines "normal" is as much the ability to reduce or eliminate information and as to retain it.
(sometimes this tic of keeping verb forms symmetrical in a sentence makes them look wrong, kinda like "that is the kind of thing up with which i shall not put.")