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Telephone Numbers 165
avoid mixing the trunk line numbers; change comb to
coma, game or comma, etc.
Let's say that you wanted to remember that Mr. Silver-
berg's phone number was JU 6-9950. You might "see" a
picture of a shiny silver iceberg sitting in a courtroom as
judge (JU 6) smoking a gigantic pipe that's covered with
lace! This is a logical illogical sequence in one ridiculous
picture. I'll use this same number to show how you would
handle it using any of the methods for keeping the trunk
line numbers straight.
Link method—associate ice-berg to judge, (the ice-berg
is pounding his gavel) then judge to pipe, ("see" a gigantic
pipe as a judge) and then pipe to lace, (picture yourself
smoking a pipe filled with lace, or see a pipe making lace).
If you want to use less items in your association for this
particular phone number, you could picture the ice-berg as
a judge with a lot of pupils (9950)!
To use the last method, simply change lace, to any other
word that would represent 50; like lass, lose, lies or lasso.
I have given you examples of memorizing phone numbers
using the different ideas, because I feel that it is up to you
to use the method that comes easiest to you. As with any-
thing else in this book, I can only give you theoretical ex-
amples, your imagination must do the rest for you, and only
you can decide which of certain methods are best for you.
I doubt if you would ever find it necessary to memorize a
phone number that you didn't intend to use for any great
length of time. The fact that you want to remember it
means that you intend to use it. And, as I mentioned be-
fore, the association will recall it for you the first few times
you have to dial it—after that you can forget your original
association, or stop trying to remember it, anyway, because
the phone number will probably be permanently etched in
your memory.