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14 Telephone Number
Memory System

Rather than being lodged in memory, most telephone numbers
find themselves on scraps of paper in a limitless range of sizes,
colours and shapes, in pockets, drawers, briefcases, and that
general storehouse of frustration I call 'The Forgettory'.
Remembering turns out to be easier than forgetting, and once
again it is the Major System that comes to the rescue in this
situation. The procedure for remembering telephone numbers is
to translate each digit of the number you have to remember into a
letter from the basic code of the Major System. Using the letters
you have transcribed, you make up catchy words and phrases that
'link you back' to both the number and the person.
For example, start with the ten people whose numbers you tried
to remember in the initial test on page 18.
Telephone Numbers
Your health-food shop 787-5953
Your tennis partner 640-7336
Your local weather bureau 691-0262
Your local newsagent 242-9111
Your local florist 725-8397
Your local garage 781 -3702
Your local theatre 869-9521
Your local discotheque 644-1616
Your local community centre 457-8910
Your favourite restaurant 354-6350
The following examples are possible solutions to these ten tele-
phone numbers.
Your local health-food shop: 787-5953. This translates into the
letters g f g - l b l m. Your memory phrase, starting with each
number's letter, could be: Good Food Guides: heaLthy Body
heaLthy Mind. In your imagination you would visualise healthy
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