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Subject: Memorizing a book Tue Jan 30, 2018 1:44 am
Sounds like something from FAHRENHEIT 451, but has anyone here done this?
I've been attempting to memorize Hamlet for the last year and a half, after being inspired by actor Richard Burton, who (along with Richard Harris, I believe) could recite most of Shakespeare by heart.
I know it's odd, but I'm doing it partially for fun and partially to challenge myself. It's tough, though, balancing re-reading Hamlet with the other books that I want to read.
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Subject: Re: Memorizing a book Tue Jan 30, 2018 7:21 am
I applaud your efforts.
For my part, I can recite Famous Jewish Sports Legends from cover to cover.
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Subject: Re: Memorizing a book Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:33 am
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Subject: Re: Memorizing a book Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:25 pm
I seem to memorise parts of books but not much to begin with. OHMSS, Fatherland, partial osmosis at best. Shakespeare is much beyond me sadly.
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Subject: Re: Memorizing a book Wed Jan 31, 2018 3:24 pm
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Subject: Re: Memorizing a book Thu Feb 01, 2018 11:05 am
Poe was beloved by Baudelaire and Verlaine, who became early and fervent champions of him on the continent after his death.
Incidentally, I only recently re-read his "The Purloined Letter".
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Posts : 1758 Member Since : 2012-01-08 Location : TN, USA
Subject: Re: Memorizing a book Sun Feb 04, 2018 2:04 am
I've memorized parts or speeches but never gone and literally become a 451 esque "book person". I don't think that I could...yet I can recite films almost start to finish. This is why people can never watch Bonds or certain others around me...I get too carried away performing the film first without realizing it...or suddenly realize I've just said dialogue from an entire scene from a film in the original series out loud during a regular day. Try explaining that one.
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Posts : 1235 Member Since : 2011-08-18 Location : Station 'C' - Canada
Subject: Re: Memorizing a book Mon Feb 19, 2018 6:48 pm
If the Bond books were to be vaporized I could reconstruct them from memory, but not aloud in one go.
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Posts : 8077 Member Since : 2010-05-13 Location : Chez Hilly, the Cote d'Hampshire
Subject: Re: Memorizing a book Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:02 pm
I could piece together bits of OHMSS if my copies went up in smoke. Albeit line by line at random like pieces of a ransom message.
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Posts : 354 Member Since : 2017-12-22
Subject: Re: Memorizing a book Wed Feb 28, 2018 8:51 pm
"Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?" "At supper." "At supper? Where?" "Not where he eats but where 'a is eaten".
IV,3,16-18
Such a badass answer. No-one does it better...
You can't go wrong with E. A. Poe, I agree! If there is an American equivalent to Shakespeare (in context of fame, popularity etc.), it will be him. I am just coming home from a staging of Romeo and Juliet. I'm just saying this because someone out there will heavily disagree with me...
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Subject: Re: Memorizing a book Sat Mar 03, 2018 12:26 am
Kath 'R'
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Subject: Re: Memorizing a book Sat Mar 03, 2018 12:29 am
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