I enjoyed being the photographer because, at one point or another, everyone rolled their eyes into the back of their heads to take a walk through their memory mechanisms. I enjoyed Za Zen Zach's top 50 non-fiction books and especially the way he recited them. His head was tilted all the way back and his eye lids were closed and twitching...maybe he needed an exorcist! It was cool...it looked like he was in his R.E.M. (rapid eye movement) of his sleep cycle...the time of your sleep when you dream most heavily. If you read Zach's blog he is very happy with his accomplishment, as everyone should be, and found the assignment to be rewarding and fulfilling. But, if you look in his past blogs, he was nervous about giving the presentation, as I imagine we all were, when Dr. Sexson told us we were going to perform some extraordinary feat of memory like it was no big deal. And, though I'm not going until Monday, I think everyone is in agreement that building a memory theater, learning some of the mechanics of artificial memory, and performing your own mini-feat was actually quite easy.
I also like Keen Kenning Ben's recitation--subject matter which will come in nicely during his parenthood. I'm curious to know what his memory theater was like because his list of 50 things is similar to mine in that they are not single discreet items, but 50 sentences. Does each word have an image, Ben, or does each sentence have an image, or neither?
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