Power Memory Formula Workbook

Power Memory Formula Workbook

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CONTENTS D1 – ‘Why are we doing this again?’ ......................................................................................................................... 4 D2 – Remembering Imagination ................................................................................................................................ 6 Imagination is a basic life skill: strengthen your memory with exaggeration and personification. (Picture link, five outward senses)

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D3 – Linking It Up ............................................................................................................................................................. 8 D4 – Walking Down Memory Lane ......................................................................................................................... 10 Our memory of space is what gets us home: store things in it with the method of place. (the Dalí rule, commute)

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D5 – Body Chimes.......................................................................................................................................................... 12 The method of place works on our body: link words and sounds in order with rhymes. (Five inward senses, order/category, introduction to phonics)

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D6 – Stacking The Cabinets ....................................................................................................................................... 14 Keep your memory safe with redundancy: visit them by looking up addresses and neighbours. (Code, Store, Recall; cross-bracing)

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D7 – Your Time To Sign............................................................................................................................................... 15 Signs put one meaning in another thing: learn how to form and remember them through math instead of words. (Cross-bracing senses, caricatures)

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D8 – On The Seventh Day ........................................................................................................................................... 17 It is easy to make new ideas. Review code-store-recall, ordering/matching, crossed senses, and the Dalí rule. Real life examples.

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D9 – Home Sweet Home ............................................................................................................................................. 18 Build structural spaces in your mind and put things in your house. (Organising)

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D10 – Seek A Newer World ....................................................................................................................................... 19 Read a poem out loud and draw pictures to store in your house. (Rhyme, rhythm, and the memory triangle of word, sight, and sound. Poem, Ulysses.)

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D11 – The People's Car................................................................................................................................................ 21 Present your ideas with simple pictures and talking points in the house. (Coding and recalling speeches by ear. Sales presentation, Volkswagen.)

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D12 – Speech, Speech................................................................................................................................................... 24 Understand what makes a speech tick with Lincoln. Summarize his lines and keep them in your house. (a simplified Gettysburg Address)

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D13 – Sales Stitch........................................................................................................................................................... 27 Use your body rhyme to remember a list of assignments or a how-to guide as a story. (Building narrative)

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D14 – Relatively Speaking.......................................................................................................................................... 28 Break down big words by linking sounds to sights. (Comparing sounds across languages.)

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D15 – Lippy Numbers .................................................................................................................................................. 29

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Remember where you make sounds in a word, and link numbers to sounds. (Spelling, reading, and consonants)

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D16 – Plugging Into The Matrix ............................................................................................................................... 31 Replace the meaning of numbers with sounds, and then pictures; draw them in your commute. (Building habits from routine memory.)

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D17 – Hear The Clock Tick ......................................................................................................................................... 33 Conclude the number games with big number challenges; understand the concept between digital and analogue information. (Face memory.)

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D18 – Faceblind .............................................................................................................................................................. 34 The Space-Picture-Action rule in action: piecemeal techniques to remember names in spaces.

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D19 – Funny One-liners .............................................................................................................................................. 35 Draw caricatures by reading faces in pictures and exaggerating features.

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Combine the space and picture from the last two lessons, and wrap it up with an action. (Decluttering)

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D22 – Cleaning Up For A Date .................................................................................................................................. 37 Simplify everything with the Dalí rule: skim through magazines and play with numbers as dates. (Describing the indescribable and mental arithmetic)

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D23 – Charting In The Sea Of Memory.................................................................................................................. 39 Grow your memory by yourself, by observing how you speak and charting it. (Building tables and systems, phonics and accents)

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D24 – A World In Review ........................................................................................................................................... 41 A summary of the memory triangle (word-sight-sound): some real life examples.

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D25 –The Abstract House........................................................................................................................................... 43 Using memory of space to remember 20 abstract ideas. (House files, abstraction)

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D26 – Lost In Rhymes .................................................................................................................................................. 48 Revisiting rhymes, routes, and the rest. The Ladder of Abstraction exercises.

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D27 – Dirty Tricks ......................................................................................................................................................... 50 Revisiting the memory house, cleaning up, and redecorating with new sales tricks.

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D28 – Troubleshooting................................................................................................................................................ 52 A final inventory in the house. New faces on old commutes. Sorting out the order in abstract ideas.

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D29 – Alma Mater .......................................................................................................................................................... 55 Cicero’s Original Method of Loci™. A final wrap-up of the three-by-three trivium for extension studies.

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D30 – The Long Goodbye ........................................................................................................................................... 58 Films, novels, and stories. A final word on music and the Last Hippie.

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Appendix: Ministerial Portraits ............................................................................................................................... 60

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D1 – ‘WHY ARE WE DOING THIS AGAIN?’ The “21st century Art of Memory” is a 2500-years-late update for the rulebook of remembering things.

SOUNDS and PICTURES We link words together to READ and WRITE . We use writing to find our WAY around the world.

1. We learn to link 1 2. 3.

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to say words.

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FIGURE 1 THE FORGETTING CURVE

WE EXERCISE OUR MEMORY OF NATURAL THINGS: 1. memory of 6 2. memory of 7 3. memory of 8

SIGHT , both real and imagined, SOUND , in actual and made-up words, and SPACE , in houses and commutes.

WE MOVE OVER TO OUR MEMORY OF MAN-MADE THINGS: 1. memory of words and lists (i.e. 9 2. memory of 10

ORDERED words),

TIME and events, and

SOUNDS PICTURES 3 READ 4 WRITE 5 WAY 6 SIGHT 7 SOUND 8 SPACE 9 ORDERED 10 TIME 1 2

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3. memory of 11

NUMBER and the sounds they make. WE SET UP THREE SIMPLE RULES:

POWERFUL , UNUSUAL ACTION . Every event has a SPACE , an ACTION , and a PICTURE . Every story has EVENTS , and in stories, ORDER is king.

1. Every picture has a 12 2. 3.

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WE LEARN THREE MEMORY SKILLS: 1.

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RHYMING , as in songs and poems, to remember words. DRAWING exaggerated pictures, or caricatures, to remember people’s faces. CROSS -BRACING your five senses, to remember signs. 23

THE RESULT IS THAT WE WILL REMEMBER, BY THE END OF THE MONTH,

WORD or PICTURE list, Any SPEECH or NUMBER , and Anyone’s FACE and NAME .

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NUMBER POWERFUL 13 UNUSUAL 14 ACTION 15 SPACE 16 ACTION 17 PICTURE 18 EVENTS 19 ORDER 20 RHYMING 21 DRAWING 22 CROSS-BRACING 23 -BRACING 24 WORD 25 PICTURE 26 SPEECH 27 NUMBER 28 FACE 29 NAME 11 12

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D2 – REMEMBERING IMAGINATION IMAGINATION IS A BASIC LIFE SKILL: STRENGTHEN YOUR MEMORY WITH EXAGGERATION AND PERSONIFICATION. (PICTURE LINK, FIVE OUTWARD SENSES)

FIGURE 2 THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY, BY SALVADOR DALI

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Bugle Control Draw Dredger Frame

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Jeans Link Potato Sharon Soy

11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Advantage Currency Family Jam Lace

16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Quilt Rubber Scallion Ship Tempo

ENCODE AND EXAGGERATE   

Encode the number within the picture. Pick the defining characteristics of the idea. Use exaggeration, personification, or both to highlight the idea.

FOR THE SECOND COLUMN:    

JEANS for worker ants. Snow White cooking seven LINKS . Eight POTATOES a week with one to spare. Nine SHARON for Ariel Sharon who is almost ninety. Six 30

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JEANS LINKS 32 POTATOES 30 31

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Ten (34

SOY ) bean chili.

SHARON SOY

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D3 – Linking It Up MEMORY OF SIGHT AND THE FIRST LINK OF PICTURES

FIGURE 3‘I DON’T DO HUGS. I AM HUGS.’ SALVADOR DALI

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'Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain' 3.14159265… 'How I like a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.'

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THE CATHEDRAL ROUTE 1. Cathedral 2.

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CLASS

3. Lentil 4.

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PASSBOOK

5. Stepdaughter 6.

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AARDVARK

7. Description 8.

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DIPLOMA

9. Car/Drive 10.

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FAHRENHEIT

11. Olive 12.

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PIN

13. Theory 14.

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TIN

15. Transport

CLASS PASSBOOK 37 AARDVARK 38 DIPLOMA 39 FAHRENHEIT 40 PIN 41 TIN 35 36

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D4 – WALKING DOWN MEMORY LANE OUR MEMORY OF SPACE IS WHAT GETS US HOME: STORE THINGS IN IT WITH THE METHOD OF PLACE. (THE DALÍ RULE, COMMUTE)

FIGURE 4 THE TRUCKER'S BRAIN, BY SALVADOR DALI

THE COMMUTE

PLANE : touchdown onto the tarmac. Walking through a jet BRIDGE . Going through CUSTOMS . Entering the ARRIVALS hall. Taking the UNDERGROUND train to city centre. Hitting the PUB next to the city centre train terminus. TRAIN ride.

1. On a 42 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

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PLANE BRIDGE 44 CUSTOMS 45 ARRIVALS 46 UNDERGROUND 47 PUB 48 TRAIN 42 43

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SUBURBAN station. 9. Walking along the FOOTPATH through the park. 10. Arriving HOME . 8. Reaching the 49

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LIST OF TEN 1. Birth 2.

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BRACE

3. Cherries 4.

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COLD

5. Comfort 6.

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CONDITION

7. Ground 8.

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MARACA

9. Passenger 10.

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VIOLIN

SUBURBAN FOOTPATH 51 HOME 52 BRACE 53 COLD 54 CONDITION 55 MARACA 56 VIOLIN 49 50

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D5 – BODY CHIMES THE METHOD OF PLACE WORKS ON OUR BODY: LINK WORDS AND SOUNDS IN ORDER WITH RHYMES. (FIVE INWARD SENSES, ORDER/CATEGORY, INTRODUCTION TO PHONICS) FIVE INWARD WITS:

IMAGINATION ", "fantasy", "estimation", and MEMORY "

"common wit", "57 "58

FIVE OUTWARD WITS (FIVE SENSES) hearing, sight, smell, touch and taste.

SONNET 141, BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note, But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise, Who in despite of view is pleased to dote. Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted, Nor tender feeling to base touches prone, Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited To any sensual feast with thee alone; But my five wits nor my five senses can Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee, Who leaves unswayed the likeness of a man, Thy proud heart's slave and vassal wretch to be. Only my plague thus far I count my gain, That she that makes me sin awards me pain.

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IMAGINATION MEMORY

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5. ILLUSTRATION SHOWING EXACTLY WHERE EACH OF THE 33 SOUNDS OF 1938 ENGLISH IS FORMED IN THE ORAL CAVITY (1938). TIME CAPSULE OF CUPALOY, BY WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC. PUBLIC DOMAIN PER PRELINGER LIBRARY.

BODY RHYME TABLE 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

[f] [v] [hw] [w] [t] [d] [tsh] [dzh] [n] [m] [th] [dh] [r] [k] [g] [ng] [sh] [zh] [s] [z] [l] [p] [b]

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Finger Temple Nose Mouth Throat Ribs Kidney Shin Leg Ball of the foot

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D6 – STACKING THE CABINETS KEEP YOUR MEMORY SAFE WITH REDUNDANCY: VISIT THEM BY LOOKING UP ADDRESSES AND NEIGHBOURS. (CODE, STORE, RECALL; CROSS-BRACING)

DIE ZAHLEN VON NULL BIS FÜNFZEHN /diː tsaːlən fɔn nʊl bɪs fʏnftseːn/ null eins zwei drei vier fünf sechs sieben acht neun zehn elf zwölf dreizehn vierzehn und fünfzehn.

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/nʊl/ /aɪns/ /tsvaɪ/ /dʁaɪ/ /fiːɐ/ /fʏnf/ /zɛks/ /ziːbən/ /axt/ /nɔʏn/ /tseːn/ /ɛlf/ /tsvœlf/ /dʁaɪtseːn/ /fɪʁtseːn/ /ʊnt fʏnftseːn/

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D7 – YOUR TIME TO SIGN SIGNS PUT ONE MEANING IN ANOTHER THING: LEARN HOW TO FORM AND REMEMBER THEM THROUGH MATH INSTEAD OF WORDS. (CROSS-BRACING SENSES, CARICATURES)

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‘WHEN I SEE EQUATIONS, I SEE THE LETTERS IN COLORS: I DON'T KNOW WHY. AS I'M TALKING, I SEE VAGUE PICTURES OF BESSEL FUNCTIONS FROM JAHNKE AND EMDE'S BOOK, WITH LIGHT-TAN J'S, SLIGHTLY VIOLET-BLUISH N'S, AND DARK BROWN X'S FLYING AROUND. AND I WONDER WHAT THE HELL IT MUST LOOK LIKE TO THE STUDENTS.’ RICHARD FEYNMAN, NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PHYSICIST

COMPOUND INTEREST (

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A equals P times open parenthesis, one plus r divided by n, close parenthesis to the power of nt.

A being the future value, P being the principal, or initial investment, R being the nominal interest rate, N being the number of times the interest is compounded per year, and T being the number of years.

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N is the world population in the year t K is the carrying capacity of our planet

A P 61 R 62 N 63 T 59 60

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R is the birth rate.

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D8 – ON THE SEVENTH DAY IT IS EASY TO MAKE NEW IDEAS. REVIEW CODE-STORE-RECALL, ORDERING/MATCHING, CROSSED SENSES, AND THE DALÍ RULE. REAL LIFE EXAMPLES. IAMSCARED

IMPACT . Head-on, rear-end, rollover, et cetera. A is for AUTOMOBILE , as opposed to bicycle and pedestrian incidents M is for MEDICAL history, including heart, liver, and immune system, blood

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clotting abilities, obesity, and pregnancy 4. S is for 67

SPEED . 50 miles per hour, or 80 km per hour, is the cut-off point where

medical attention becomes a must. 5. C is for 68

COMPARTMENT intrusion. If the glove compartment is crushed by

more than twelve inches or 30 cm, there will be significant injuries. 6. A is for 69 7. R is for 70 8. E is for 71

AGE . Anyone under five or over fifty-five is at risk. RESTRAINTS . Check if laps, shoulders, airbags and child seats are clear. EXTRICATION . If it takes more than 20 minutes to free passengers,

lives are at stake even if the trapped person is conscious. 9. D is for 72

DEATH .

IMPACT AUTOMOBILE 66 MEDICAL 67 SPEED 68 COMPARTMENT 69 AGE 70 RESTRAINTS 71 EXTRICATION 72 DEATH 64 65

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D9 – HOME SWEET HOME BUILD STRUCTURAL SPACES IN YOUR MIND AND PUT THINGS IN YOUR HOUSE. (ORGANISING) BUILDING CODE 1. It must consist of permanent and 73

SPLIT spaces. Studios flats, RVs, and lofts, however

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TWO levels. In plain English, it shouldn't be built like a maze. The first level

are the big spaces where you can access the little spaces in the second level. If the front hall leads to the dining room, that should be the end of it, without a big walk-in closet or patio windows or anything. 3. Rooms have to be ordered. You should be able to number the rooms in a regular manner off the top of your head, even if you can't go directly from two consecutive rooms; bedrooms, for instance, might be sequenced in the clockwise direction.

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LOUNGE : Kitchen island, stairwell/bookcase, settee, fridge, and the multifuel stove. YARD : River, tool shed, green-lidded wheelie bin, blue-lidded recycling bin, and the

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BATHROOM : Freestanding bath, toilet, washing machine, tumble dryer, and wash

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STUDY : Bookshelves, desk, chair, laptop, and the ashtray. BEDROOM : Double bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, nightstand, nightcap

SPLIT TWO 75 LOUNGE 76 YARD 77 BATHROOM 78 STUDY 79 BEDROOM 73 74

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D10 – SEEK A NEWER WORLD READ A POEM OUT LOUD AND DRAW PICTURES TO STORE IN YOUR HOUSE. (RHYME, RHYTHM, AND THE MEMORY TRIANGLE OF WORD, SIGHT, AND SOUND. POEM, ULYSSES.) ULYSSES, BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (EXCERPT) 1 Come, my 80

FRIENDS ,

'Tis not too late to seek a newer 81

WORLD .

Push off, and sitting well in order 82 The sounding furrows; for my 83 5 To 84

SMITE

PURPOSE holds

SAIL beyond the sunset, and the baths

Of all the western stars, until I 85 It may be that the 86

GULFS will wash us down:

It may be we shall touch the 87 And see the great 89

DIE .

HAPPY ISLES , 88

ACHILLES , whom we knew

10 Though much is taken, much 90 We are not now that 91

ABIDES ; and though

STRENGTH which in old days

Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, 92

WE ARE ; 93

FRIENDS WORLD 82 SMITE 83 PURPOSE 84 SAIL 85 DIE 86 GULFS 87 HAPPY 88 ISLES 89 ACHILLES 90 ABIDES 91 STRENGTH 80 81

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One equal 94

TEMPER of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in 95 15 To strive, to seek, to 96

WILL

FIND , and not to yield.

WE ARE 94 TEMPER 95 WILL 96 FIND 92 93

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D11 – THE PEOPLE'S CAR PRESENT YOUR IDEAS WITH SIMPLE PICTURES AND TALKING POINTS IN THE HOUSE. (CODING AND RECALLING SPEECHES BY EAR. SALES PRESENTATION, VOLKSWAGEN.)

FIGURE 6 VOLKSWAGEN THINK SMALL CAMPAIGN

ECONOMY TALKING POINTS 97

IMPERFECT . This car is not your dream vehicle. The picture is a worn down but working car.

MULE

"It was the only thing to do after the 98 died." The picture is a poor farmer driving a VW bus. Is the 99

ECONOMY trying to tell you something? The picture is a line chart of a boom and bust economy, shaped like a Beetle.

Live 100

BELOW your means.

The picture is an underground Beetle. Think it over, New York, Chicago, San Francisco. The picture has Beetle 101

TAXICABS , which is what the ad is suggesting.

MAINTENANCE TALKING POINTS

KILL

Will we ever 102 the bug? Never. The picture is a bug zapper. VW says they will go on making the Beetle forever. IMPERFECT MULE 99 ECONOMY 100 BELOW 101 TAXICABS 102 KILL 97 98

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PART

Need a 103 ? The picture is a car taken apart. VW parts are widely available.

SNOW

A Volkswagen, obviously. Even with enough 104 on it to hide the beetle shape. The picture is a running Beetle covered in snow. Its unique construction keeps dampness out.

FLOATING in a pond. How does a little bug survive in the automotive JUNGLE ? The picture is a watertight Beetle 105

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The picture is the Beetle in an actual jungle. The answer is ‘inconspicuously’, because it keeps its head down and needs little maintenance.

TECHNOLOGY TALKING POINTS 107

LEMON . This Volkswagen missed the boat. The picture is a rejected Beetle on the shore because it has a minor fault, which makes it a ‘lemon’.

BOIL

Impossible. A Volkswagen can’t 108 over. The picture is an air-cooled radiator.

WASH

The only water it needs is the water you 109 it with. The picture is a man washing his car. The air-cooled car does not need to top up engine coolant.

AIR CONDITIONING

111 V–V–Volkswagen announces 110 . The picture is the driver with breeze in her hair. Again, pioneering heat exchange technology.

ENVIRON –MENTAL

113 Why buy 112 when you can buy environ–normal? The picture is a Prius owner hugging trees. Volkswagen claims to be a sane and environmental choice.

RETRO TALKING POINTS 114

FAT . The years have been kind to this Volkswagen. The picture is a modern Volkswagen that is fatter and roomier.

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JUNK in the trunk. This Volkswagen is carrying an extra burden.

PART SNOW 105 FLOATING 106 JUNGLE 107 LEMON 108 BOIL 109 WASH 110 AIR 111 CONDITIONING 112 ENVIRON 113 –MENTAL 114 FAT 115 JUNK 103 104

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The picture is seat belts, air bags, and whatnot that have been added over the years. 116

STUFFED animal. The rabbit is back, and it’s bursting at the seams.

The picture is a packed American VW Golf, or as they call it, the VW Rabbit. It was already here when we lived naked in huts.

FLOWER -power VW Bus, as younger buyers

The picture is a psychedelic, 117 might imagine the seventies to be. It is unusual to drive the vehicle you were conceived in.

The picture is a plain VW bus, which may have been lived in as a 118

TRAILER .

STUFFED FLOWER 118 TRAILER 116 117

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D12 – SPEECH, SPEECH UNDERSTAND WHAT MAKES A SPEECH TICK WITH LINCOLN. SUMMARIZE HIS LINES AND KEEP THEM IN YOUR HOUSE. (A SIMPLIFIED GETTYSBURG ADDRESS) THE COMPLETE ADDRESS 1. Eighty-seven years ago our parents made a new nation on this land, born free, and built on the idea that all people are made 119

EQUAL .

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 2. Now we are in a big 120

CIVIL WAR , testing whether that nation, or any nation, 121

imagined and built in this way, can last for long. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. 3. We are 122

GATHERED on a great battle-field of that war.

We are met on a great battle-field of that war. 4. We have come to 123

SET ASIDE 124

a part of this field as a grave for people who gave

their lives so that the nation can live. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. 5. It is all 125

RIGHT AND GOOD that we should do this. 126

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It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 6. But, in a larger sense, we cannot 128

SET ASIDE , we cannot make holy, we cannot 129

honour this ground.

EQUAL CIVIL 121 WAR 122 GATHERED 123 SET 124 ASIDE 125RIGHT 126 AND 127 GOOD 128 SET 129 ASIDE 119 120

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But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. 7. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have 130

HONOURED it, far above

our poor power to add or take. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. 8. The world will not note or remember for long what we say here, but it can never 131

FORGET what they did here.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. 9. It is for us the living, rather, to be set here to the 132

UNFINISHED work which they who

fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

BIG JOB left before us: LOYAL to the cause for which the dead gave their final

10. Instead, we are here to finish the 133 a. we are more 135

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loyalty;

DECIDE that these men did not die for nothing; freedom will be REBORN in this nation, under God;

b. we firmly 136 c.

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d. and this government of the people, by the people, for the people, will not 138 139

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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – -

that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

HONOURED FORGET 132 UNFINISHED 133 BIG 134 JOB 135 LOYAL 136 DECIDE 137 REBORN 138 DIE 139 OFF 130 131

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D13 – SALES STITCH USE YOUR BODY RHYME TO REMEMBER A LIST OF ASSIGNMENTS OR A HOW-TO GUIDE AS A STORY. (BUILDING NARRATIVE) SALES PRESENTATION CHECKLIST

SET . HOOK .

1. Prep and 140 2. Find the 141

SIZE them up. 4. Fix their PROBLEM . 5. Get EXCITED . 6. Show the WAY . 7. What’s In It For ME ? 8. Build the LOVE . 9. Listen and SHOOT . 10. Close the SALE . 3.

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SET HOOK 142 SIZE 143 PROBLEM 144 EXCITED 145 WAY 146 ME 147 LOVE 148 SHOOT 149 SALE 140 141

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D14 – RELATIVELY SPEAKING BREAK DOWN BIG WORDS BY LINKING SOUNDS TO SIGHTS. (COMPARING SOUNDS ACROSS LANGUAGES.) A REMINDER

EINS , zwei, DREI , vier, FÜNF , sechs, SIEBEN , acht, NEUN , zehn, ELF , zwölf, DREIZEHN , vierzehn, und FÜNFZEHN .

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TEN WORDS – ZEHN WORTE Wurst Nullachtfünfzehn Verabredet Treppenwitz Kummerspeck fremdschämen Verschlimmbessern Drachenfutter Handschuhschneeballwerfer Vergangenheitsbewältigung

/vʊʁst/ /nʊl axtfʏnftseːn/ /fɛʁ apʁeːdət/ /tʁɛpənvɪts/ /kʊmɐʃpɛk/ /fʁɛmtʃɛːmən/ /fɛʁʃlɪmbɛsɐn/ /dʁaxənfʊtɐ/ /hantʃuːʃneːbalvɛʁfɐ/ /fɛʁgaŋənhaɪtsbəvɛltɪgʊŋ/

EINS DREI 152 FÜNF 153 SIEBEN 154 NEUN 155 ELF 156 DREIZEHN 157 FÜNFZEHN 150 151

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D15 – LIPPY NUMBERS REMEMBER WHERE YOU MAKE SOUNDS IN A WORD, AND LINK NUMBERS TO SOUNDS. (SPELLING, READING, AND CONSONANTS) BODY RHYME BREAKDOWN 0. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

[f] [v] [hw] [w] [t] [d] [tsh] / tʃ / [dzh] / dʒ / [n] [m] [th] [dh] [r] [k] [g] [ng] /ŋ/ [sh] /ʃ/ [zh] /ʒ/ [s] [z]

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3714 4963 5398 4317 0213 Thirty-seven fourteen, forty-nine sixty-three, fifty-three ninety-eight, forty-three seventeen,

MILL TITHE , Thebe cam, RAM BASH , them tail, FUN TOM .

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MILL TITHE 160 RAM 161 BASH 162 FUN 163 TOM 158 159

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European Union

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Italy Spain Poland Romania Netherlands Greece Belgium Portugal Czech Republic Hungary Sweden Austria Bulgaria Denmark Slovakia Finland Ireland Lithuania Latvia Slovenia Estonia Cyprus Luxembourg Malta

502,519.9 (population, thousands) 81,751.6 65,075.3 62,435.7

60,626.4 47,190.4 38,200.0 21,413.8 16,655.8 11,325.9 10,951.7 10,636.9 10,532.8 9,985.7 9,415.6 8,404.2 7,504.9 5,560.6 5,435.3 5,375.3 4,480.8 3,244.6 2,229.6 2,050.1 1,340.2 804.4 511.8 417.6

GERMANY FRANCE 166 UNITED 167 KINGDOM 164 165

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D16 – PLUGGING INTO THE MATRIX REPLACE THE MEANING OF NUMBERS WITH SOUNDS, AND THEN PICTURES; DRAW THEM IN YOUR COMMUTE. (BUILDING HABITS FROM ROUTINE MEMORY.) CREDIT CARD NUMBER: 3714 168

4963 5398 169 4317

EXPIRY DATE: 02/13 Mill, tithe, Thebe, cam, ram, bash, them, tail, fun, Tom.

A REMINDER: THE COMMUTE

PLANE : touchdown onto the tarmac. 2. Walking through a JET BRIDGE 3. Going through CUSTOMS . 4. Entering the ARRIVALS HALL 5. Taking the UNDERGROUND TRAIN to CITY CENTRE 6. Hitting the PUB next to the CITY CENTRE TRAIN TERMINUS . 7. TRAIN RIDE 8. Reaching the SUBURBAN STATION . 1.

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9. 192

Walking along the 189

FOOTPATH THROUGH THE 190

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10.

Arriving 193

HOME .

STATION FOOTPATH 190 THROUGH 191 THE 192 PARK 193 HOME 188 189

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D17 – HEAR THE CLOCK TICK CONCLUDE THE NUMBER GAMES WITH BIG NUMBER CHALLENGES; UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT BETWEEN DIGITAL AND ANALOGUE INFORMATION. (FACE MEMORY.) FILL IN THE BLANKS. /fɪt, fɪn, fɪm, fɪθ, fɪr,

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SUGGESTED SOLUTION: /fɪt, fɪn, fɑrm, fɪfθ, fər, fɪk, fɪl, fɪʃ, fɪb, təf, tɪt, tɪn, tɪm, tajð, tɛr/ fit, fin, farm, fifth, fir, fick, fill, fish, fib, tuff, tit, tin, tim, tithe, tear.

COUNTING THE DAYS 194

023640: 195

943940 : NUMBER OF DAYS IN MODERN HISTORY

Average Lifespan of a human in days 196

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013267 : NUMBER OF DAYS LEFT

943940 Average 196 Lifespan 197 of 198 a 199 human 200 in 201 days 202 013267 194 195

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D18 – FACEBLIND THE SPACE-PICTURE-ACTION RULE IN ACTION: PIECEMEAL TECHNIQUES TO REMEMBER NAMES IN SPACES.

RELIGIOUS SPA -

DIED on the CROSS for our SINS . Muhammad PRAYED in a CAVE and RECEIVED THE QURAN . Buddha SAT under a TREE and found WISDOM . Jesus 203

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RAMSEY

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WINSTON

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DIED CROSS 205 SINS 206 PRAYED 207 CAVE 208 RECEIVED 209 THE 210 QURAN 211 SAT 212 TREE 213 WISDOM 214 RAMSEY 215 WINSTON 216 ANTHONY 217 ALEC 218 EDWARD 219 MAGGIE 220 TONY 203 204

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D19 – FUNNY ONE-LINERS DRAW CARICATURES BY READING FACES IN PICTURES AND EXAGGERATING FEATURES.

7. TWO FIXATIONS SUFFICE IN FACE RECOGNITION. JANET HUI-WEN HSIAO & GARRISON COTTRELL, DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, USA.

T-SCANNING FACES 1.

221

NOSE : standard, straight.

2. Philtrum: marked, with laugh lines around the mouth. 3.

222

EYES : lazy on the right.

4. The rest of the face: a cleft chin, or a dimple chin.

NOSE TYPES: Fleshy / Hawk / Pencil / Greek / Turned up / Roman / Snub / Nostrils / Bulbous / Bumpy / Sturdy / Nixon / Flat / No-nose.

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NOSE EYES

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D20 – PLEASE BE SEATED COMBINE THE SPACE AND PICTURE FROM THE LAST TWO LESSONS, AND WRAP IT UP WITH AN ACTION. (DECLUTTERING) FILL IN THE BLANKS. Space

NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE

Name Anthony

Eden

Harold Macmillan (Supermac) Alec Douglas-Home Harold

Wilson

Edward

Heath

James

Callaghan

Maggie

Thatcher

John

Major

Tony

Blair

Gordon

Brown

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One-liner

Action

NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE

NOS NOSE E NOS NOSE E NO NOSE SE NO NOSE SE NO NOSE SE NO NOSE SE NO NOSE SE NO NOSE SE NO NOSE SE NOS NOSE E

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D22 – CLEANING UP FOR A DATE SIMPLIFY EVERYTHING WITH THE DALÍ RULE: SKIM THROUGH MAGAZINES AND PLAY WITH NUMBERS AS DATES. (DESCRIBING THE INDESCRIBABLE AND MENTAL ARITHMETIC) RANDOM MAGAZINE 

Abertis considers sale of UK 223 o

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The huge Dreamliner is trying to hop up your stairs and tumbles down.

'RURAL SHORT -BREAK' 227

promotion

SHARM EL SHEIKH 229

230

In the tropical resort, the tourist is stuffed in your fridge with zero dignity.

Royal Caribbean appoints new 231 o

226

Farmers are sitting on your settee, chilling out, and feeding you their heirloom ham.

British tourist dies in 228 o

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DREAMLINER flying again by April

VisitEngland launches new 225 o

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Boeing's hopes to have 224 o

AIRPORTS

GODMOTHER

This stove of yours is driving the Titanic, whose godmother is apparently Kristin Chenoweth now.

THE CALENDAR CODE Picture January February

Two-face

March April

Warrior

May June

Old Major

July August

Caesar

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FEVER LOVER JUNIOR LUCKY

Month code 1 4

We see

4 0 2 5 0 3

AIRPORTS DREAMLINER 225 'RURAL 226 SHORT 227 -BREAK' 228 SHARM 229 EL 230 SHEIKH 231 GODMOTHER 232 FEVER 233 LOVER 234 JUNIOR 223 224

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DOG

September WTC October

6 1

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4 6

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OCTOPUS

Novel 238

CHRISTMAS

LUCKY DOG 237 OCTOPUS 238 CHRISTMAS 235 236

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D23 – CHARTING IN THE SEA OF MEMORY GROW YOUR MEMORY BY YOURSELF, BY OBSERVING HOW YOU SPEAK AND CHARTING IT. (BUILDING TABLES AND SYSTEMS, PHONICS AND ACCENTS) BASIC TABLE LAYOUTS

F T N M TH R K L SH B

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ROAR

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GARTH

LOVE

LOATH

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CONSONANT-VOWEL TABLE (CONT’D)

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FULL VOWELS Full Basic 10

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D24 – A WORLD IN REVIEW A SUMMARY OF THE MEMORY TRIANGLE (WORD-SIGHT-SOUND): SOME REAL LIFE EXAMPLES. MANHATTAN: AN IBA OFFICIAL COCKTAIL Type Primary alcohol by volume Served Standard garnish Standard drinkware Ingredients*

Cocktail Whiskey Straight up; without ice cherry Cocktail glass

WHISKY 20ml Sweet red VERMOUTH Dash Angostura BITTERS Maraschino CHERRY (Garnish) 50ml rye or Canadian 239 240

241

242

Preparation

Stirred over ice, strained into a chilled glass, garnished, and served straight up.

THE BOILED DOWN MARTINI 5 STANDS FOR…

NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE

Five centilitres Two cl Zero, as in a dash Rye Whiskey Red Vermouth Angostura Bitters Stir Strain Cocktail glass Cherry garnish

WHISKY VERMOUTH 241 BITTERS 242 CHERRY 239 240

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LIST OF 100 MOST POPULOUS COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES:

CHINA

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India

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10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39

Japan Mexico Philippines Vietnam Ethiopia Egypt Germany Iran Turkey DR Congo Thailand France UK Italy South Africa South Korea Myanmar Colombia Spain Ukraine Tanzania Argentina Kenya Poland Algeria Canada Uganda Iraq Morocco Sudan

BRAZIL NIGERIA RUSSIA

CHINA UNITED 245 STATES 246 BRAZIL 247 NIGERIA 248 RUSSIA 243 244

40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90

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Peru Malaysia Uzbekistan Saudi Arabia Venezuela Nepal Afghanistan Ghana North Korea Yemen Mozambique Taiwan Australia Syria Ivory Coast Madagascar Angola Sri Lanka Cameroon Romania Kazakhstan Netherlands Chile Niger Malawi Burkina Faso Ecuador Guatemala Mali Cambodia Zambia Zimbabwe Senegal Chad Cuba Belgium Guinea Greece Tunisia Portugal Rwanda Czech Republic Bolivia Haiti Hungary Somalia Sweden Belarus Dominican Republic Benin Azerbaijan

91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100

Burundi Austria Honduras United Arab Emirates South Sudan Switzerland Israel Tajikistan Bulgaria Serbia

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D25 –THE ABSTRACT HOUSE USING MEMORY OF SPACE TO REMEMBER 20 ABSTRACT IDEAS. (HOUSE FILES, ABSTRACTION)

FIGURE 8 FRANCISCO DE GOYA, SATURNO DEVORANDO A SU HIJO

IN SATURN DEVOURING HIS SON, SATURN, GOD OF PLENTY, IS EATING HIS SON. THE HEAD AND LEFT ARM IS ALREADY GONE. HIS EYES POP OUT IN THE BLACK BACKGROUND.

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FIGURE 9 DIAGRAM SHOWING THE ORIGINAL LOCATION OF THE BLACK PAINTINGS IN LA QUINTA DEL SORDO

READ OR LISTEN 1.

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253

SLEEP OF REASON PRODUCES MONSTERS : Goya is asleep on his painting desk, and some devils – owls and 250

251

252

bats, folly and unknown – attack him as he buries his head in his arms. SLEEP OF 251REASON 252 PRODUCES 249 250

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2.

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THE THIRD OF MAY 1808 : a fierce and unfeeling firing 255

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squad is about to kill a messy group of people early in the morning. One man, about to be shot, opens his arms wide as he stands on top of the dead bodies. 3.

259

THE NUDE AND CLOTHED MAJA : two pictures of 260

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the same prim and proper lady lying back on a bed of pillows, with her hands behind her head. 4.

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YARD WITH LUNATICS : Behind high walls and without a roof, 265

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naked and crazy people are cut off from the world and the rest of us. 5.

267

THE DISASTERS OF WAR : there are 82 post-card sized 268

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270

prints of war crimes, in three groups: war, famine, and cultural stories. 6.

271

THE FATES : The goddess of death cuts the cloth of life with scissors; her 272

sisters spin new life and measure a length of time. A man sits in front of the three goddesses, with his hands tied behind him. 7.

273

AN OLD MAN AND A MONK : the old, bearded god of 274

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time has a scary monk shouting into his ear. (Goya was deaf and hearing voices by then.) 8.

279

TWO OLD MEN EATING SOUP : the men are so hungry 280

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they somehow have formed a smile with their mouth, like their teeth have fallen off from the lack of food. Their eyes are just holes. MONSTERS THE 255 THIRD 256 OF 257 MAY 258 1808 259 THE 260 NUDE 261 AND 262 CLOTHED 263 MAJA 264 YARDS 265 WITH 266 LUNATICS 267 THE 268 DISASTERS 269 OF 270 WAR 271 THE 272 FATES 273 AN 274 OLD 275 MAN 276 AND 277 A 278 MONK 279 TWO 280 OLD 281 MEN 282 EATING 283 SOUP 253 254

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9.

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FIGHTING WITH CUDGELS : two men club each other to death 285

286

with cudgels, which are short thick sticks. Both of them are trapped knee-deep in quicksand. 10.

287

WITCHES’ SABBATH : Goya makes fun of superstitious people by 288

drawing a funny Devil-goat who is the master of a team of terrified witches. 11.

289

MEN READING : This painting is also called Politicians. Six men are 290

reading a printed page, probably a newspaper article about themselves, on the lap of a sitting man. 12.

291

JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES : In the Bible, a beautiful widow 292

293

saved her city by seducing the invader’s general, and hacking his head off after he falls asleep. 13.

294

PILGRIMAGE TO SAN ISIDRO : it is night-time at a seaside 295

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holiday resort, and drunk tourists are turning into monsters. 14.

298

MEN MOCKED BY TWO WOMEN : it is the opposite 299

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of Men Reading, about two women laughing cruelly at the ugly body of a man who loves himself. 15.

303

PROCESSION OF THE HOLY OFFICE : unholy 304

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men and women of the church are walking in a line underneath the open sky, showing everybody how holy they are. 16.

308

THE DOG : it is the head of a small black dog looking up. The entire painting is 309

almost empty, but something huge is hiding the dog’s body. We don’t know what it is. FIGHTING WITH 286 CUDGELS 287 WITCHES’ 288 SABBATH 289 MEN 290 READING 291 JUDITH 292 AND 293 HOLOFERNES 294 PILGRIMAGE 295 TO 296 SAN 297 ISIDRO 298 MEN 299 MOCKED 300 BY 301 TWO 302 WOMEN 303 PROCESSION 304 OF 305 THE 306 HOLY 307 OFFICE 308 THE 309 DOG 284 285

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17. Saturn Devouring His Son: Saturn, god of plenty, is eating his son. The head and left arm is already gone. His eyes pop out whitely in the black background. 18.

310

LA LEOCADIA : Goya’s younger maid and sometime lover is in funeral dress, 311

resting against a grave. We don’t know whose grave it is, but we can guess. 19.

312

FANTASTIC VISION : a man and a woman are flying, frightened, 313

looking in different directions. War and destruction on the ground is so far away, it is almost invisible. 20.

314

HEADS IN A LANDSCAPE : it is a painting of a window. Five 315

316

317

strange-looking people peep at us suspiciously from one corner, as we do the same to them.

LA LEOCADIA 312 FANTASTIC 313 VISION 314 HEADS 315 IN 316 A 317 LANDSCAPE 310 311

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D26 – LOST IN RHYMES REVISITING RHYMES, ROUTES, AND THE REST. THE LADDER OF ABSTRACTION EXERCISES. DAYS OF OUR LIVES   

943940 . The rhyme is ‘both mob that’ How long is a lifetime? 023640. The rhyme is ‘FUN MEEK THIEF’ How much time do we have? 013267 . The rhyme is ‘fit men kill’. How long is human history? 318

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LEIF ERICSON’S ROUTE

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Rogaland, Norway; Þingvellir, Iceland; Eastern Settlement, Greenland; Baffin Island, Nunavut; and Labrador, Newfoundland.

THE GREAT COMMISSION 943940 FUN 320 MEEK 321 THIEF 322 013267 318 319

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One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated

ANDREW , James, JOHN , Philip, BARTHOLOMEW , Matthew, THOMAS , James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the ZEALOT , Judas son of James, and JUDAS ISCARIOT , who became a traitor. Lk 6:12-16 apostles: Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother 323 325

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ANDREW JOHN 325 BARTHOLOMEW 326 THOMAS 327 ZEALOT 328 JUDAS 329 ISCARIOT 323 324

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D27 – DIRTY TRICKS REVISITING THE MEMORY HOUSE, CLEANING UP, AND REDECORATING WITH NEW SALES TRICKS. THE BOUBA/KIKI EFFECT

10. BOUBA/KIKI EFFECT, KÖHLER, 1929.

A SLOGAN IS FOREVER

330 331

LOVE . LUXURY .

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Room 1 is An Offer of 330

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Room 2 is A Necessary 331

LOVE LUXURY

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  

FOREVER Room 4 is New TRADITIONS Room 5 is SIZE Matters Room 3 is A Diamond Is 332 333

334

FOREVER TRADITIONS 334 SIZE 332 333

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D28 – TROUBLESHOOTING A FINAL INVENTORY IN THE HOUSE. NEW FACES ON OLD COMMUTES. SORTING OUT THE ORDER IN ABSTRACT IDEAS. BONUS COMMUTE: VISITING A FRIEND 1. Walk. 2.

335

TRAM .

3. Mainline. 4.

336

CHANGE AT JUNCTION 337

338

5. Rail-Tube change. 6.

339

TUBE -TUBE CHANGE 340

341

7. Bus. 8.

342

STEEP STREET 343

9. Friend’s dog. 10.

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BEER

11. Food. 12.

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POKER

13. Dinner. 14.

346

WHISKEY

15. Home.

BONUS PARTY: U.S. PRESIDENTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY 1. 2.

THEODORE Roosevelt William Howard TAFT 347

348

TRAM CHANGE 337 AT 338 JUNCTION 339 TUBE 340 -TUBE 341 CHANGE 342 STEEP 343 STREET 344 BEER 345 POKER 346 WHISKEY 347 THEODORE 335 336

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WOODROW Wilson 4. Warren G. HARDING 5. CALVIN Coolidge 6. Herbert HOOVER 7. FRANKLIN D. Roosevelt 8. Harry S. TRUMAN 9. DWIGHT D. Eisenhower 10. John F. KENNEDY 11. LYNDON B. Johnson 12. Richard NIXON 13. GERALD Ford 14. Jimmy CARTER 15. RONALD Reagan 3.

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TAFT WOODROW 350 HARDING 351 CALVIN 352 HOOVER 353 FRANKLIN 354 TRUMAN 355 DWIGHT 356 KENNEDY 357 LYNDON 358 NIXON 359 GERALD 360 CARTER 361 RONALD 348 349

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FIGURE 11 PIET

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Mondrian , COMPOSITION WITH YELLOW, BLUE, AND RED, 1937-42, OIL ON CANVAS, 72.5 X 69 CM, TATE GALLERY. LONDON

FIGURE 12 RED AND BLUE CHAIR,

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neoplasticist DESIGN BY GERRIT RIETVELD IN 1917

Mondrian

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FIGURE 13 LES DEMOISELLES D' 364

363 364

Avignon , BY PABLO PICASSO

neoplasticist Avignon

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D29 – ALMA MATER CICERO’S ORIGINAL METHOD OF LOCI™. A FINAL WRAP-UP OF THE THREE-BYTHREE TRIVIUM FOR EXTENSION STUDIES. ‘GO TELL THE SPARTANS, PASSERBY: THAT HERE, BY SPARTAN LAW, WE LIE.’ EPITAPH AT THERMOPYLAE, COMPOSED BY SIMONIDES, TRANSLATED BY FRANK MILLER

PREVIOUSLY IN OUR MEMORY…      

FIRST aid. Ulysses. RETIREMENT speech. Gettysburg. MOTIVATIONAL speech. Sales Prep. APPRAISAL speech. Sausages. Forgone waltzes. VOCABULARY . Stanley to Ronald. HISTORICAL trivia. IAMSCARED. 365 366

367

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MENTAL ARITHMETIC

ADDING things, as in exaggeration. OMITTING things, as in abstraction. Changing the ORDER of things, as in ‘A lack of pies is a pack of lies’, and SUBSTITUTING one thing for another, as in ‘Friends, Romans, Countrymen:

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371

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372

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373

374

lend me your ears’.

FIRST RETIREMENT 367 MOTIVATIONAL 368 APPRAISAL 369 VOCABULARY 370 HISTORICAL 371 ADDING 372 OMITTING 373 ORDER 365 366

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MENTAL OPERATIONS



EXAGGERATION we can take away details and make it an ABSTRACTION ,

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we can make funny mistakes by switching order,

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and we can substitute things that share an 377

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we can add and strengthen details by 375

376

ABSTRACTION .

SUBSTITUTING EXAGGERATION 376 ABSTRACTION 377 ABSTRACTION 374 375

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D30 – THE LONG GOODBYE FILMS, NOVELS, AND STORIES. A FINAL WORD ON MUSIC. AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS, BY OLIVER SACKS

"The Case of the 378

COLORBLIND PAINTER " 379

‘A Surgeon’s Life’ ‘To See and Not See’

378 379

COLORBLIND PAINTER

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"The 380

LANDSCAPE of His DREAMS ” 381

Pontito, Tuscany, by Franco Magnani,

"382

PRODIGIES " – Sydney, by Stephen Wiltshire "An Anthropologist on Mars" "The Last Hippie"

MEMORY IS THE DIARY THAT WE ALL CARRY ABOUT WITH US. OSCAR WILDE

LANDSCAPE DREAMS 382 PRODIGIES 380 381

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APPENDIX: MINISTERIAL PORTRAITS S TA N L E Y B A L D W I N

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RAMSEY MACDONALD

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N E V I L L E C HA M B E R L A I N

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W I N S TO N C HU R C H I L L

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CLEMENT ATTLEE

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A N T HO N Y E D E N

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HA R O L D M A C M I L L A N

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A L E C D O U G L A S - HO M E

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HA R O L D W I L S O N

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E D W A R D HE A T H

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J A M E S C A L L A G HA N

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M A R G A R E T THA T C HE R

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JOHN MAJOR

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TO N Y B L A I R

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GORDON BROWN

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