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Kindness. Humanism.Secular. Sceptic. History, Pre-Raphaelites, Reading, Life-Long Learning. 'Sanity Is Not Statistical'.'Fill the unforgiving minute...'.

Wednesday, 20 April 2011

http://www.amazon.com/Memory-Palace-Matteo-Ricci/dp/0140080988

'The historian Jonathan Spence would describe how a seventeenth century Jesuit, built a ‘memory palace’ in his mind, which allowed him to learn thousand Chinese characters in a few weeks.' - Rory Stewart blog, 28/12/2010

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