The Synthesis Nobody Writes

Somewhere in your library, a novel is quietly making the same argument as a history book three shelves over.

You'll almost certainly never notice - not because you aren't sharp enough, but because nobody can hold twelve different books open in their head at once. Working memory taps out around four or five.^aaWhich is why the twelve-book synthesis never happens in anyone's head. It is not a talent problem, it is a capacity problem.