Page 130 - Use Your Memory

USE YOUR MEMORY
You now possess the code and keys to a Peg Memory System for
the numbers from 1 to 100 - a system that contains the pattern for
its own memorisation. As you have seen, this system is basically
limitless. In other words, now that you have letters for the
numbers 0 to 9, it should be possible for you to devise Key Image
Words for the numbers not only from 1 to 100 but also from 100
to 1000. This system could of course go on forever.
On the pages that follow I have devised a list of Key Image
Words for the numbers 100 to 1000. After certain of the more
difficult words I have included: (1) a suggestion for a way in which
an image might be formed from the word; or (2) a dictionary
definition of the word, the definition including words or ideas that
should help you form your image; or (3) 'new' definitions for
words that place them in a humorous or unusual but certainly
more memorable form.
The remaining words are followed by blank spaces. In the space
provided you should write in your own Key Words for, or ideas
about, the image you will be using. In some cases, where the
combination of letters makes the use of single words impossible,
double words have been used, such as no cash for the number 276
(n, hard c, sh). In other cases it is necessary to include vowels
(which have no numerical meaning) at the beginning of the word.
For example, the number 394 (m, p, r) is represented by the word
empire. In still other cases, words have been used, the first three
letters only of which pertain to the number. For example, the
number 359 (m, l, b) is represented by the word mailbag. The final
g is ignored.
If you wish to expand your Major System beyond 100, your next
task is to check this Major System list carefully. It would obviously
be too much to ask you to do this at one sitting, so I suggest the
more modest goal of checking, making images for, and remem-
bering, 100 items each day. As you go through the list, attempt to
make your images of the words as solid as you can. Remember that
as you memorise this entire list, you should try to use both sides of
your brain, making sure that you are reviewing and consolidating
the order, while at the same time increasing and expanding your
imagination, your creativity, and your awareness of your senses.