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USE YOUR MEMORY
that you have been asked to shop for the following items:
a silver serving spoon
six drinking glasses
bananas
pure soap
eggs
biological washing powder
dental floss
wholewheat bread
tomatoes
roses
Instead of scrambling around for little bits of paper (everyone has
either done it himself or seen others desperately fumbling through
their pockets for the missing slip) or trying to remember all the
items by simple repetition and consequently forgetting at least two
or three, you would simply apply the Basic Memory Principles in
the following way.
Imagine yourself walking out of your front door perfecting the
most amazing balancing trick: in your mouth is the most enor-
mous silver-coloured serving spoon, the handle-end of which you
are holding between your teeth, as you taste and feel the metal in
your mouth.
Carefully balanced in the ladle-end of the spoon are six exagger-
atedly beautiful crystal glasses, through which the sunlight reflects
brilliantly into your bedazzled eyes. As you look with delighted
amazement at the glasses, you can also hear them delicately tink-
ling on the silver spoon. Going outside into the street, you step on
the most gigantic yellow and brown coloured banana, which skids with
a swish from under you. Being a fantastic balancer, you barely
manage not to fall and confidently place your other foot
groundward only to find that you have stepped on a shimmering
white bar of pure soap. This being too much for even a master, you
fall backward and land seat down on a mound of eggs. As you sink
into them, you can hear the cracking of the shells, see the yellow of
the yoke and the white of the albumen, and feel the dampness
soaking into your clothes. (See illustration, page 81.)
Using your imaginative ability to exaggerate anything, you speed
up time and imagine that, in a couple of seconds, you have gone
back inside, undressed, washed your soiled clothes in a super
biological washing powder, which allows pure, shimmering water
to leave the washing machine, and then visualise yourself once
again on your way out of the front door. This time, because you are
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