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That's sort of fascinating- it reminds me of how the ancient romans used to memorize long epic poems etc (walking around and making visual/spatial associations, then recalling their travel to recite it later. I might be butchering that a bit but that's how I understood the method)



I think you might be referring to the Method of loci [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci




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