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THE NUMBER-SHAPE SYSTEM
5 A giant hook might have come down from the sky and lifted
you and your motorcycle off the road along which you were
speeding; or you on your motorcycle might have crashed, incred-
ibly noisily and disruptively, into a musical instrument shop,
knocking over cymbals and drums; or seated astride the motor-
cycle is an enormous pregnant woman.
6 Sunshine could be pouring out of your pipe; or you might
have flung the golf club rhythmically up into the air, and it got
entangled in a sunbeam and drawn toward the sun; or the
sunbeam could be zapping like a laser into a cherry, making it
grow gigantic before your very eyes, and you imagine the taste as
you bite into it, the juices dribbling down your chin.
7 Your gigantic cliff could actually be made entirely of apple
pie; or your fishing line could catch, instead of a fish, a bedraggled,
soggy but nevertheless still scrumptious apple pie; or your
boomerang could fly off into the distance and, with a thunk, end
up in an apple pie as big as a mountain, not returning to you but
sending only the delicious smells of the apple and the piecrust.
8 Your snowman could be decorated entirely with exquisitely
pink blossoms; or your hourglass could tell the time not by the
falling of sand but by the gentle falling of millions of tiny blossoms
within the hourglass; or your shapely woman could be walking
provocatively through endless fields of waist-high fallen blossoms.
9 You could miniaturise your spaceship and make it into one of
thousands of tadpoles; or miniaturise it even further and have it as
the leading sperm about to fertilise an egg; or imagine it leaving
Earth's atmosphere with a huge flag on its nose.
10 You feel the shock in your bat as it cracks against the ball, and
you see the ball sailing across endless fields of rhythmically
waving, beautifully golden wheat; or you image Laurel and Hardy
playing the ultimate fools and thrashing around, while trampling,
the same endless fields of wheat.

These are, of course, only examples, and are included to indicate
the kind of exaggeration, imagination, sensuality and creative
thinking that is necessary to establish the most effective memory
links. As with the Link System, it is essential that you practise this
system on your own. I recommend giving yourself at least one test
before you move to the next chapter.
One of the best ways to do this is to check yourself with

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