Capítulo 896: Chapter 894: The Universe in My Mind
The mory Palace is a kind of mory technique, as well as a book.
This book is also known as “Lima’s mory Palace,” and it describes a rational mory thod that has existed for a long ti.
As for the origins of this mory thod, there are many opinions. In fact, one says it cos from Ancient Ro, being a secret technique not passed down among a few great scholars. Precisely by mastering this thod, the great scholars can acquire wisdom far beyond ordinary people.
Another theory says it cos from Ancient Greece, supposedly originating from the Greek poet Simonides. One day, Simonides recited a hymn in the grand banquet hall and left for so reason. Then the hall suddenly collapsed, and all guests inside perished, their bodies blurred and indistinguishable. Simonides, who survived, calmly analyzed based on the guests’ positions in the hall, identifying the bodies one by one. His ability shocked many, and eventually, under pressure, he revealed the secret of his mory.
An additional theory claims it originated in the European Middle Ages, existing as secret techniques among certain mysterious groups. Because printing was not widespread at that ti, many books needed to be rembered by human brains, so these secret techniques erged. Consequently, those who mastered these techniques were considered wicked wizards, many of whom were burned to death on the fire rack.
And the person who popularized this mory thod was Lima after the dieval period.
Lima was an Italian, born on October 6, 1552. His original na was Matteo Ricci. In 1571, he joined the Jesuits, and in 1577, he began his missionary work.
He initially went to India, and then traveled to China, living there for many years before dying in Beijing on May 11, 1610, at the age of 58.
It is said that during his life, he mastered several languages including Italian, Latin, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese, made significant achievents in theology, philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy, and authored works.
He was able to do all this because he mastered a special mory technique. This enabled him not only to quickly learn Chinese but also to morize Chinese classics such as the Four Books and Five Classics, and even quickly retain articles, reciting them horizontally, vertically, and backward.
Later, he specifically wrote a book called “Western Country mory thod” to docunt his mory technique.
Slowly, this mory thod spread and continued to develop, reaching astonishing levels in certain unknown fields.
For instance, in the World mory Championships, so contestants could morize a completely shuffled deck in just over ten seconds, recall hundreds of numbers in a few minutes, or rember thousands of numbers within an hour.
To achieve this level, the mory technique is naturally not rely pure morization or rote learning; its core lies in logic and association. Use relatively easy-to-rember concrete things, such as images and sounds, to morize relatively harder-to-rember abstract things, like numbers.
Here’s an example: morizing a string of 11 numbers from a phone number, 13754718495, in a few seconds.
Normal morization poses difficulties, but you can break it down into 137547 and 18495, further turning them into homophonic phrases “Evil Mountain Flag, Samurai Flag,” “One Tyrant is Emperor,” and finally into a sentence—Evil Mountain Flag and Samurai Flag flutter, the sole emperor is the Nine Five Supre.
Thus, the numbers turn into relatively logical words and acquire a certain imagery, making them easier to rember. With so optimization, they can even beco permanently unforgettable. Even if they are abruptly forgotten, recalling the imagery will bring back the numbers without error.
The most orthodox mory Palace thod, based on this technique, typically requires establishing a personal mory location, that is, a palace.
The palace can be sothing existing in reality, like a familiar bedroom, or it can be virtual, but it must be sothing the morizer can hold firmly in mory.
In this way, the morizer can place certain markers in the palace to morize so abstract things.
For example, at the entrance of the mory Palace, place a loaf of bread; at the center of the mory Palace’s ground, place a book; in the corner of the mory Palace’s wall, put a seductively naked beauty.
Therefore, whenever they think of this room, the mory helps recall the three tasks for today—buy food, buy a book, and buy… well, wash underwear.
Of course, this is just the most basic demonstration of the mory Palace technique. If willing to study, the mory Palace can develop step by step from a small room to an exceptionally large extent, thus temporarily or permanently rembering anything one wishes to rember.
It can even undergo changes unimaginable to others, for after all, the mory Palace is entirely created by personal imagination, encompassing all possibilities.
But back to the point, though the mory Palace is a skill anyone can learn, appearing very cool, in reality, it serves no practical purpose.
The main reason is that in the real world, most people are ordinary, after all.
Therefore, when using a car, they do not need to know how every part of the car works. If the car breaks down, they simply go to a repair shop.
When buying sothing, they do not need to know how the raw materials for the thing are obtained, nor do they need to painstakingly make it themselves; they can simply buy it by paying money.
When falling ill, they do not need to understand what changes are happening in their bodies, do not need to perform risky operations, nor need to perform surgery on themselves; they simply go to the hospital.
In the impulse to revenge when angry, they equally do not need to know how to do it; just suppress the urge.
Otherwise, when preparing to make nuclear weapons, if you attempt to obtain so materials, you will be invited for a tea; when preparing to make poisons, if you try to get so materials, you will be invited for a tea; when preparing to make a hot weapon, if you try to get so materials, you will be invited for a tea.
After drinking enough tea, preparing to use so simpler cold weapons for revenge is also an option.
However, the ultimate outco often is, winning gets them to the execution ground for gunpowder and peanuts, losing leads them to the underworld for hot spicy ngpo soup.
Therefore, the skill of the mory Palace, like so seemingly reasonable principles, sounds good, but in reality, it lacks practical use.
Really of no use.
Nonetheless, things of no use are always mastered by so people.
Like Richard, he is a real-life master of the mory Palace.
Moreover, he is an exceptionally adept master of the mory Palace, adept to a degree far beyond ordinary people’s imagination.
Just like what’s demonstrated here, while other people’s palaces are just a room, a loft, a building, or a small town, his palace is… a universe.
A universe.
So he can morize innurable knowledge that others cannot imagine, just like an encyclopedia, and showcase all sorts of incredible abilities.
All because he has a universe in his mind.
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