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  "thread": {
    "id": 473,
    "subject": "art of memory",
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    "first": "1998-04-04T12:32:02+00:00",
    "last": "1998-04-04T12:32:02+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0009-0711@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Freestone",
        "address": "matthew at matthewf.demon.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-04-04T12:32:02+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) art of memory",
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          "text": "From: Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu>"
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          "text": "Weer's house also recalls the old (medieval?) technique of memory by\nconstructing a mental \"castle\" and, in the mind's eye, placing each thing\nor event you want to remember in a seperate room of your castle, using\nimages to represent what you want to remember.  "
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          "text": "The techniques of artificial memory are much older than the middle ages.\nIn fact, Simonides, in the Soldier books, was one of the great\npractitioners of the art in classical times. \nFrances Yates' book \"The Art of Memory\" is a fascinating history of the\nsubject. It crops up in John Crowley's \"AEgypt\", and \"Little, Big\" too.\n\nBest,\n--                              II         |\\      _,,,---,,_\nMatt Freestone                  II    zzz. /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_.\nmatthew at matthewf.demon.co.uk    II        |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\\ (  `'-'\nwww.matthewf.demon.co.uk/       II       '---''(_/--'  `-'\\_)"
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