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Good evening, /lit/.

I enjoy memorizing things. Anything, really...poems, speeches, etc. The problem I have encountered recently, however, is that I have run out of good things to memorize.

What are some interesting/useful things to memorize?

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>> No.1603067

How's your autism treating you?

>> No.1603069

S A T O R
A R E P O
T E N E T
O P E R A
R O T A S

>> No.1603071

I like doing this with my favourite poems too. How much do you have memorised? Do you use a special technique by the way, mnemonics, or is it just by rote?

>> No.1603075

>>1603067

Very well. How about yours?

>> No.1603078

>>1603071

Mostly by rote. Memorization is just something I'm good at.

A couple dozen poems, a dozen or so famous speeches, some other odds and ends...

You?

>> No.1603082

>>1603069
You know that's actually an encoded Christian prayer?

Memorizing things is a hobby of mine. Included in my arsenal are

The president's speech from Independence Day
Norman's mother's speech from the end of Psycho
The Ballad of East and West
The Raven
Several poems by the author of Winnie the Pooh
Several Shakespearian monologues -- if you haven't done Hamlet's Soliloquy, it actually comes in very useful sometimes.

>> No.1603087

>>1603082
>You know that's actually an encoded Christian prayer?

That is bullshit invented by christians.

>> No.1603089

>>1603078

Like I say, just poems. Not many, about fifteen. I originally wanted a poem for every occasion, but it's harder than it sounds lol I do it by rote too, although I do know how to use mnemonics. I'm out of practise though and it's easier just to read something a bunch of times.

I love reciting Funeral Bells by Auden and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Frost. I have a few poems by Stephen Crane that I love too.

It's great to be able to lie in bed and just tell yourself a poem without looking at a book.

>> No.1603090

>>1603082

Interesting items on my list include:

-The first chunk of the general prologue to The Canterbury Tales (in Middle English)

-The V For Vendetta speak ("Voilà! In view a humble vaudevillian veteran...")

-The Gettysburg Address

-The lyrics to "I've Been Everywhere."

-The lyrics to "Technologic."

>> No.1603095

The first line of every book you read.

>> No.1603103

Every muscle in the human body.
Nobel Prize winners
the periodic table including atomic weights, symbols and families. Extra points for discovery dates and names of the discoverer

>> No.1603106

>>1603103

Thank you. Good suggestions.

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1603109

>>1603090
>>1603082
Excuse me... What are you doing?

>The V For Vendetta speak ("Voilà! In view a humble vaudevillian veteran...")
>The president's speech from Independence Day
>Several Shakespearian monologues -- if you haven't done Hamlet's Soliloquy, it actually comes in very useful sometimes.
>lyrics

I know shit like that and unlike you I never thought of memorizing things, in fact, I even dislike that.

But those are some entry level stuff, come on, impress me.

I can say the words at the same time as the characters of The Lion King and Matrix.

>> No.1603111

Countries and capitals

>> No.1603115

Shakespeare's Sonnets

>> No.1603120

The 'I have a dream' speech by Martin Luther King

>> No.1603123

Ted Hughes wrote a book about memorizing poems called By Heart. It includes 100 or so poems he thinks every poet ought to have committed to memory.

>> No.1603124

Phobias and Morse Code

>> No.1603127

Every moon in our solar system. 139 last I checked.

>> No.1603129

Scripture, man. Essential.

>> No.1603155

>>1603111
>>1603120
>>1603124

I know all of these already (excluding phobias, the list of which I doubt you could ever truly call complete).

>>1603109

Actually, I would consider the lyrics to the two aforementioned songs as the most difficult items I've ever memorized.

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it,
Charge it, point it, zoom it, press it,
Snap it, work it, quick - erase it,
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it,
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it,
Drag and drop it, zip - unzip it,
Lock it, fill it, call it, find it,
View it, code it, jam - unlock it,
Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it,
Cross it, crack it, switch - update it,
Name it, rate it, tune it, print it,
Scan it, send it, fax - rename it,
Touch it, bring it, Pay it, watch it,
Turn it, leave it, start - format it.

There's simply no consistent rhyme or reason, and keeping them in order is most trying. Compounding this is the fact that they switch up order throughout the song.

>> No.1603217

Bump...anything else?

>> No.1603233

http://www.mediafire.com/file/d7hkcdi67hrrere/Ted%20Hughes%20-%20By%20Heart.pdf

There's the Hughes book's Table of Contents and the Introduction where he discusses why memorizing poems is beneficial, and his methods for memorizing. The scan is kinda lousy, sorry.

>> No.1603246

Can you give tips on how to memorize shits?

>> No.1603254

The formulae for the Copenhagen Interpreation of particle physics

>> No.1603259

>>1603233
Cheers man, this was a very interesting read.

>> No.1603262

>>1603246

One useful technique is to abbreviate it and then read through that to test yourself.

For example, the first bit of Great Expectations:

>My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

...becomes:

M f f n b P, a m c n P, m i t c m o b n n l o m e t p. S, I c m P, a c t b c P.

Read through the full version a few times, and then attempt the abbreviated version. It helps the passage to stick in your memory.

>> No.1603298

I spent quite a while reading about and testing memory systems and I found this one to be the best. Use it. I suggest you download the full book, but this has all the essential info I think.

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~roy/magictalk-wisdom/discussions/dominic.html