Card,
Orson Scott. Wyrms (New York: TOR, 1988) 345 p.
On
a planet where all the Wise people have been called away and
enslaved, a small creature of the race of dwelfs gathers knowledge.
Her name is Heffiji. She has a very small brain and cannot retain a
thought for more than a few seconds, but she devises a system of
writing things down and storing the papers where she knows she can
find them later. Heffiji is short for Mikias Mikuam Heffiji Ismar
which means Never to Lose the finding place. "That’s me, said
Heffiji. I don't know anything but I can find everything." (p.
180).
Heffiji's
house is in fact a great library. It is here the heroine of the story
gains the information she needs to complete her quest. Heffiji's
house finally becomes the center of a great university.
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