Today both Sutter and Ty laid out their memory-palace technics for memorizing the nine Muses(Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Thalia, Terpsichore, Polyhemnia, Melpomone, Urania). Sutter used his home, Ty a synagogue. Both impressive in the description of the details. The same technic, yet idiosyncratic in their designs. Most memory systems are, but in this class the aim will be to try and have them work for everyone. Perhaps there is a way to have a memory system work for everyone, just as all memory systems are artificial. My method of remembering the Muses, it is somewhat embarrasing to say, is being helped along by hearing them recited in class by more skilled mnemotechnicians(sp?) then myself.


They also tend to, classically speaking, have an element of the sacred. Which means implementing them can be dangerous, as Giordano Bruno(a monk who developed a very provacative,vast memory system) found out the hard way; he was burned at the stake in 1600.

We also must begin constructing a communal Memory theatre from elements in the classroom, preferable those of a fixed position, such as the thermostat and chalkboard.