Life Seems To Speed Up As We

Once Upon A Time, This Idea Of Having A Trained, Disciplined, Cultivated Memory Was Not Nearly So Alien As It Would Seem To Us To Be Today.

Our Culture Is An Edifice Built Of Externalized Memories.

One Trick, Known As The Journey Method Or 'memory Palace,' Is To Conjure Up A Familiar Space In The Mind's Eye, And Then Populate It With Images Of Whatever It Is You Want To Remember.

Since At Least The Middle Ages, Philosophers And Philologists Have Dreamed Of Curing Natural Languages Of Their Flaws By Constructing Entirely New Idioms According To Orderly, Logical Principles.

Sequencing - The Careful Striptease By Which You Reveal Information To The Reader - Matters In An Article, But It Is Absolutely Essential To A Book.