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telesilla 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How actors remember their lines

This extraordinary book from Frances Yates explains how before writing, scholars and story tellers would visualize architecture so they could store memories in rooms, then they would walk from room to room and recover memories, for example to tell very long stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Memory

wanderingstan 8 months ago [–]

Also covered in the more contemporary book Moonwalking with Einstein with its discussion of building one’s own “memory palace.”

spitfire 8 months ago | [–]

Also referenced a number of times in the excellent Hannibal series.

lelanthran 8 months ago | | [–]

Also in the series The Mentalist.

jakubmazanec 8 months ago | | [–]

And Sherlock.

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