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USE  YOUR  MEMORY
 little image story on your inner screen. Now recall the words and,
 transforming them,  you  get:
 f—8
 1—5
 t—1
 r—4
 n—2
 b—9
 c—7
 m—3
 s—0
 1—5
 v—8
 r—4
 851429730584
 Another system  for remembering long numbers,  especially if you
 have  not  committed  the  Major  System's  Key  Image  Words  to
 memory,  is  to  improvise  with  the  basic  Major  System  Memory
 Code,  making up 4-consonant words  from the number you have
 to  remember.  For  example,  with  a  16-digit  number,  such  as
 1582907191447620,  you  could  make  up  the  following  4-digit
 numbers and Key Image Words:  1582 - telephone, 9071 - basket,
 9144  -  botherer,  7620  -  cushions.
 Here  you  could  imagine  a  loudly  and  melodically ringing red
 telephone being chucked in a long and graceful parabolic curve into
 a basket, where an annoying person (a botherer) is jammed bottom-
 down  (as  in  comedy  films),  while  other  people  are  throwing
 multicoloured and multimaterialed cushions at him. Again, at the
 end of this paragraph close your eyes and imagine the story, then
 fill  in the words and the numbers in the space below:








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