Interesting finding, this is what I got when i wickied "art of memory". This isn't the outline I expected to find for the Yates book, but this is still very interesting. Our classroom memorization technique has a name, its called "The Method of Loci". Now, i know this is the method we are all expected to implore in order to memorize our 50 lists. And I'm going to do it, I feel especially prepared after reading this write up in wiki
But I have to admit, for me (as I imagine for the rest of the class as well, save Claire) this is unchartered territory. When I have had to memorize anything before- my Abc's or "The Idea of Order at Key West"- I've always gone about it literally: by gazing at symbols or words on a page. A is for apple. Rereading a line of poetry over and over in my head until it sticks. This is like putting a blindfold on, memorizing 50 things without imploring a piece of paper. And I am really going to try not to, for the sake of orality!
And FYI, when constructing a memory palace and your "loci", it is advised that the place be well lit and architecturally complex, providing many rooms and compartments in which you can stowe your memories. It should be set out in a particular order, and each loci should fall at moderate, set intervals.
Also intersesting, it says that the images you associate with your loci can be replaced with new ones. It's all part of a "working memory". Like what we've done with the 9 points in our classroom: they went from muses to Ong's 9 points, and I have a feeling we're not done with them yet....
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