My aim is to memorize In search of lost time by Marcel Proust. For that I need too many rooms as this is a 3000 plus pages epic. I am running out of memory palaces and need your help in finding new palaces. If you were in my shoes, how would you approach this issue?
Thanks in advance
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Isn’t it much longer than that? Wikipedia says it has 1,267,069 words.
Are you trying to memorize it word-for-word or just the main ideas?
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True. Sorry for the error. It’s a 3600 or more page book. I am memorizing word by word.
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What
1,267,069 words.
Impossible, seriously, give up. I’m dead serious here. Go memorize some poems, let’s say you take two seconds to memorize a word, then it would take about 30 days memorizing all day.
But… If I were you I would use churches, temples and imaginary memory palaces.
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From the replies, I guess it would take a long time if I start memorizing verbatim. So as Josh had asked me, I would take the main ideas from each page and place them on specific loci’s.
Thank you for the comment.
Here are some related links:
- How Do I Memorize a Book?
- World record for memorizing text - #8 by Josh
- John Basinger: Memorizing Milton's Paradise Lost (60,000 words, “thousands of hours”)
- verbatim-text
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Thank you so much. I have checked the links and they are awesome. Thank you for helping me especially when I’m in the learning stage.
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