Now do that while dancing/moving weird and looking at trees, and I’m pretty sure that’e most of making a songline
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I am absolutely sure that the folks in our neighborhood are NOT ready for the ragtime production of The Twelve Labors of Hercules, complete with clumsy dancing.
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I dunno, I was thinking more humming/singing under breath and some shoulder/neck wiggling in a certain pattern
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Now that I think about it, it is true that I remember, vividly, every single poem I’d ever set to music. I’m an amateur composer, and melodies come to me naturally and then stick in my head very easily. Maybe the next act of Hamlet is going to be an actual songline, with select soliloquys set to music composed by me. That way madness lies (I’d tried to write an opera before, and failed miserably), but it may at least be entertaining madness.
And in the meantime, I still have the Hydra song stuck in my head, alternating with the Cerynean Hind. I’m definitely not going to forget that Hydra for a while. Which I guess is the point.
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I am. VERY. excited.
Please keep us updated.
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By the way, @meepster I am also reconstructing my objects in PAO, as I started to do numbers with PAO, I need quicker react on my objects. Thus, I am trying to customize my objects with the aid of shape-system, and taking reference from @Erol.
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My PAO is pretty random; a random sampling:
19 - Queen Victoria, because she lived in the 19th century;
45 - Donald Trump, because he was the 45th president of the US;
24 - a hang-glider pilot, because I tried hanggliding as a 24th birthday present to myself;
Some follow a Russian “Major System” sort of thing:
44 - Charlie Chaplin, because the number 4 looks like the Russian letter “Ch”
I’m actually rather surprised that this crazy mishmash of stuff is sticking in my head, but it is, and I am finding it highly useful, so I am just going with what works.
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OK, so it took three separate ragtime tunes to encode the Twelve Labors of Hercules. I can recall all of them and it’s relatively effortless and quite hilarious, but also not very efficient. I have to mentally “re-play” about 10 minutes of music in order to collect the data, and there’s really not that much data to encode. (I could memorize that list by rote)
I’m thinking that this is not the best way to use music to encode data, and that what I really need to be doing is composing melodies to fit the data, rather than using pre-existing pieces as a “memory palace” of sorts, looking for particular melodic snippets to be “pegs”. If I fit the melody to the data, I don’t have to waste so much space.
I do actually kinda want to encode more data in music, though, because I can see just how powerful of a method it is (the damn Cerynean Hind song is still stuck in my head). What I think I want to do next is to actually create a real “songline” of sorts - dedicated songs to sing at different trees along my History Walk, describing various historical events that are relevant to that particular tree. I haven’t yet started encoding any sort of ancient Greek history, other than giving two landmarks to Homer and Hesiod, respectively, so maybe there will be some songs related to some other ancient Greek figures or events.
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You begin to worry less about efficiency once you realize that you only need to review the songs periodically after a certain time, because at some point you’ll know the information so well it just comes to you when you need it. I know this because of Lynne’s catalogued experiences.
EDIT: Dr. Kelly → Lynne
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That pretty much goes for all the other methods too. Things are a little bit clunkier since you’re taking the time to make them as memorable as possible, although eventually you get good at it and the process becomes pretty easy and fast.
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Absolutely! And please call me Lynne! I am just one of the group here.
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Do you have any musicians? Since you say you are short on visualization ability and long on the audio ability, you can have bits of music going with your characters. For the musicians that I have in my 1-100 list, I do that. It makes it fun, too.
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Yes ma’am, my bad
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I was inspired by Lynne to add the Mayans to my History Walk. I even found similar-looking palm trees for the start and the end of the Mayan civilization. I’m already noticing the connections and correspondences she talks about - the Olmec Period starts at the same time as the Bronze Age collapse of the Mesopotamian civilizations. Now I want to read more about the Mayans, and maybe listen to some Mayan music and “attach” some snippets of it to the palm trees in question.
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Sounds tasty
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Interestingly, I haven’t done that for any of the musicians in my PAO list (there are four). Maybe I should.
I’m up to 91 PAO characters - so close!
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I didn’t mean it as a rebuke. You were being respectful. My bad wording. Not your bad at all!!!
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Once you get that far into the History Walk, the connections just keep coming and you will want to know more about everything and everyone. Then you start asking questions like: what did Jane Austen know about the composers and scientists and foreign events in her time? And everyone in history just becomes mroe complex. Welcome to my world!
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you got a rooster in ur system? bc ur profile pic is a 
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I do, in fact. 84 is a Purple Chicken (the action is to lay an egg, and the object is a purple egg). I have a special connection to purple chickens from another area of my life, so I figured I’d include it in my system.
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