Sherlock also shrugs.

"Maybe it's architectural, or idiosyncratic, or otherwise non-transferable. I don't know. It doesn't sound like you're interested, anyway."

"I am interested. Observe my interest," he says. "But I do think it's idiosyncratic in some way, because some part of the process is still lost on me."

"It works very well for me. I've never tried adapting it for anyone else; maybe I'd have to know more about you."

"More such as what?"

"Well, what format do you think in if it's not words?"

"Observed data, connections between same. Feelings. I do have some thoughts in words, they're just - unbelievably slow, compared to the rest."

"I'm not immediately coming up with a faster encoding mechanism than writing," she says. "I mean, I guess typing could be faster if you had a decent typing speed."

"I do, but not nearly fast enough."

"What I'd really like would just be directly perfect recall. But I can make paper work."

"Memory can be trained. Depending on what exactly you want to remember."

"Trained how?"

"Mine is generally obedient. But I've heard of things like mind palaces, for storing a lot of information where you can get at it whenever you need to."

"The advantage over notebooks being? Besides the obvious ones of portability and privacy."

"I don't know how it compares on storage speed, but retrieval speed has got to be orders of magnitude better."

"Hmm. Maybe I'll look it up."

"Have fun."