{"id":144,"date":"2008-10-13T17:53:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T22:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2008-10-13T17:53:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T22:53:51","slug":"how-do-you-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"HOW DO YOU REMEMBER?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were all of an age, though I more so, talking about how we remembered  book lore.  I argued for webs of proper nouns, especially names because they are more easily checked for misspellings, and connected by moving information.  Reader Steve mentioned <strong>Jonathan Spence\u2019s<\/strong> book, <strong><em>Matteo Ricci\u2019s Memory Palace<\/em><\/strong>, in which each of many rooms in the palace houses a subject.  I haven\u2019t read the book, but this seemed a useful device for assigning meaning to my connected facts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/img_2455.jpg\" title=\"img_2455.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[144]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/img_2455.jpg\" alt=\"img_2455.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fig. #40+. How about granite bricks\/blocks to house the subjects of one&#8217;s mind, especially as the b\/b&#8217;s are varied in size, placement, and color but each necessary to the wall&#8217;s standing. I love this rock wall in Tenants Harbor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then, Eureka! (That is a little librarian joke.) I remembered the Dewey Decimal System.   As a long ago library cataloger of books, I knew well Melville Dewey\u2019s classification system for all of 1876\u2019s knowledge which he divided up into 100 subject\/parts.  Could Dewey parts be like subject rooms?  An aside:  Dewey was a strange, if clever, man.  For instance, he placed the subject <em>women<\/em> in the high 300\u2019s between <em>folklore<\/em> and <em>holidays<\/em>, instead of with <em>men<\/em> in the low 300\u2018s.  This particular ninniness was changed in later editions, but psychology is still a subset of philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m ordering <strong>Jonathan Spence\u2019s <em>Matteo Ricci\u2019s Memory Palace<\/em><\/strong>.  I love Jonathan Spence.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know of an introduction to the peculiarities of the Dewey Decimal System or any other classification scheme, but each has them.  Any suggestions?<\/p>\n<p>Why read?  Reason #4: Readers make good conversation last longer and continue later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were all of an age, though I more so, talking about how we remembered book lore. I argued for webs of proper nouns, especially names because they are more easily checked for misspellings, and connected by moving information. Reader &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=144\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,19,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}