TEST 1 Review

How many times was the alphabet invented?
-Once

One thing that's most important when it comes to memorization? (Foer)
-Practice makes perfect

What condition forces you to remember everything? (Foer)
-Synesthesia 

What is Anamnesis?
-Remembering things from a previous existence.

Architectural design to memory palaces? Locations of memories. (Yates)
-Loci

Who was the greek poet who coined the term memory palace? How did this term come into being?]
-Simonides, he attended a banquet, which he stepped out of momentarily only to witness it's collapse. He had to remember where each person was sitting, therefore he created a 'memory palace' in which he placed each dead person accordingly

The 9 characteristics of the Oral Tradition summed up?
-Practical

The Nine Muses and their respective roles:
 Calliope: Epic Poetry
Clio: History
Terpsichore: Dance
Urania: Astronomy
Thalia: Comedy
Euterpe: Lyrical Poetry
Polyhymnia: Hymns
Melpolmene: Tragedy
Erato: Love poetry

12 Tribes of Israel:
Reuben: Water
Simeon: Ox
Levi: Ox
Judah: Lions
Zebulun: Ships/sea
Issachar: Ass/Donkey
Dan: Serpent
Gad: Trampled
Asher: Rish/Money
Naphtali: Deer
Joseph: Fruitful Bough
Benjamin: Wolf

Walter Ong's 9 Oral Tradtions:
1.) Additive rather than Subordinative
2.) Aggregrative rather than analytical
3.) Redundant and Copius
4.) Conservative or traditional
5.) Close to the Human realm
6.) Agonistically toned
7.) Empathetic and Participatory
8.) Homeostatic
9.) Situational rather than Abstract

Foer's 15 random Items:
Pickeled Garlic
Cottage Cheese
Salmon
Six bottles Wine
Socks x3
3 Hula Hoops
Snorkel
Dry ice machine
Email Sophia
Skin-toned Cat suit
Paul Newman film
Elk sausage
Megaphone/Directors Chair
Harness and Ropes
Barometer

Ong's One-liners:
-Sight isolates, sound incorporates
-Think memorable thoughts
-Writing restructures consciousness
-Sound only exists as it's going out of existence