# What is a memory palace anyway? \[POLL\] **URL:** \ **Category:** General Memory Chat\ **Tags:** method-of-loci, examples, polls\ **Created:** [October 16, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/what-is-a-memory-palace-anyway-poll/67955 "2021-10-16T02:57:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![bjoern.gumboldt](https://forum.artofmemory.com/user_avatar/forum.artofmemory.com/bjoern.gumboldt/32/16747_2.png) [@bjoern.gumboldt](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/bjoern.gumboldt)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/what-is-a-memory-palace-anyway-poll/67955/11 "2021-10-16T19:18:42Z")
> [@thinkaboutthebible](#): > > Check his translation. Well… first all all, the Latin translations I’m familiar with (reading and writing) take up less than half a page and the rest is dedicated to footnotes to clarify the aforementioned translations. On the other hand, I don’t want to tell you what translations you should like… that is of course entirely up to you; however… …I think the “wax tablet” makes “background” a really bad choice given the context. You see, a whiteboard is a background and nothing more. A wax tablet on the other hand is not a background but something that you’d engrave the information in (not so much on). So ultimately, the _white_ of the board serves as the backdrop to the _black_ of the ink; on the other hand, the wax tablet after it’s been worked is the final product. Maybe more obvious when you compare a painting and a sculpture… the former has a canvas as a background to hold the paint(ing), the latter will become the finished product after it’s been worked. I hope that makes some sort of sense… if not, let me know and I try for a better example. > [@Paris - 2,000 Digits Of Pi](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/paris-2-000-digits-of-pi/33678/1): > > If you have a 3-digit system you can use 821 (FNT - Fanta) and 148 (TRF = Truffle) overlapping on the middle digit. There is a fountain in the Jardin des Tuileries ([here](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/EF3MH7/fountain-in-the-jardin-des-tuileries-paris-france-EF3MH7.jpg)). Mental Image: A few truffle hogs are sitting around the “Fanta Fountain” and decide to drop a few truffles in the fountain for good luck (they don’t have any pennies on them) thus creating the new flavor “Truffle Fanta”. Compare this to: - a 821 / 148 image in front of a **library** - a 821 / 148 image in front of a **school** …if you use _library_ and _school_ **only as backgrounds** , there is nothing that really “attaches” the image and makes the backgrounds harder to distinguish… like writing on a whiteboard or a blackboard is really not a big difference. To me, creating a “Fanta Fountain,” is much more like using a wax tablet by comparison. > [@thinkaboutthebible](#): > > No Greek was harmed in the translation of that text. No worries… pretty sure the Romans took care of that already. 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/what-is-a-memory-palace-anyway-poll/67955)._