If you can rearrange a word instantly and spell it in alphabetical order, you know that word very well. Thanks to this mental habit, I could spell amazingly well as a child. Ever since then, I have memorized words alphabetically as well as normally. It got to the point where I became used to requests from them to "calm down a little." Just after one such request, I remember looking at an oil company billboard and saying to myself, "What would 'SHELL' look like if the letters were arranged in alphabetical order?" I mentally rearranged it to "EHLLS," and I was hooked. On lengthy automobile trips my constant fidgeting, tapping, and so on got on my parents' nerves. By the time I was eight years old, I had so much nervous energy that it was hard for me to sit still. I can never remember a time when my mind wasn't occupied with some sort of activity, whether it was communicating directly with someone else, or being actively involved with a mental game of my own invention. 10022 Simultaneously published by Ballantine Books, Ltd., Toronto, Canada FOR My wife Reneé and my son Robert HARRY LORAYNE My son Jeff and my daughter Julie JERRY LUCAS CONTENTS Jerry Lucas xi Harry Lorayne xiv Some History of the Art 1 In the First Place: Association 5 The Link 14 Substitute Words 20 Long Words, Appointments and Errands, Shopping Lists 26 Speeches 31 Foreign and English Vocabulary 38 Names and Faces 50 Absentmindedness 73 Long-Digit Numbers 83 The Peg 94 Style Numbers, Prices, Telephone Numbers ♱05 Playing Cards 111 Weekly Appointments Days of the Week 124 Anniversaries, the Zodiac, Historical Dates 135 The Alphabet and Picturing Letters 141 Start Your Children 145 Sports 149 The Stock Market 157 Politics 161 FOREWORD: FOREWORD: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ix CONTENTS 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 The Arts Music for Beginners Reading The Memory Graph Potpourri Look, I'm a Genius 166 171 179 184 192 199 206 Finally X FOREWORD: JERRY LUCAS As a child, I had a peculiarly busy mind. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-90705 SBN 345-24527-X-195 This edition published by arrangement with Stein and Day Publishers First Printing: June, 1975 Printed in the United States of America BALLANTINE BOOKS A Division of Random House, Inc. NEW YORK Copyright© 1974 by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas All rights reserved. The Memory Book Harry lorayne and jerry lucas BALLANTINE BOOKS
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