文档介绍：The
Memory
Book
Harry lorayne
and
jerry lucas
BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK
Copyright© 1974 by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas
All rights reserved.
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.
201 East 50th Street, New York, . 10022
Simultaneously published by
Ballantine Books, Ltd., Toronto, Canada
FOR
My My
wife son
Reneé Jeff
and and
my my
son daughter
Robert Julie
HARRY LORAYNE JERRY LUCAS
CONTENTS
FOREWORD: Jerry Lucas xi
FOREWORD: Harry Lorayne xiv
1 Some History of the Art 1
2 In the First Place: Association 5
3 The Link 14
4 Substitute Words 20
5 Long Words, Appointments and Errands,
Shopping Lists 26
6 Speeches 31
7 Foreign and English Vocabulary 38
8 Names and Faces 50
9 Absentmindedness 73
10 Long-Digit Numbers 83
11 The Peg 94
12 Style Numbers, Prices, Telephone Numbers ·105
13 Playing Cards 111
14 Weekly Appointments; Days of the Week 124
15 Anniversaries, the Zodiac, Historical Dates 135
16 The Alphabet and Picturing Letters 141
17 Start Your Children 145
18 Sports 149
19 The Stock Market 157
20 Politics 161
ix
CONTENTS
21 The Arts 166
22 Music for Beginners 171
23 Reading 179
24 The Memory Graph 184
25 Potpourri 192
26 Look, I'm a Genius 199
27 Finally 206
X
FOREWORD: JERRY LUCAS
As a child, I had a peculiarly busy mind. I can never
remember a time when my mind wasn't occupied with
some sort of activity, whether it municating
directly with someone else, or being actively involved
with a mental game of my own invention.
By the time I was eight years old, I had so much
nervous energy that it was hard for me to sit still. On
lengthy automobile trips my constant fidgeting, tap-
ping, and so