notes 01.26.2009

assignments:

1. the page # of the most provocative thing in each book
2. be an architect, build a flexible memory theatre w/ at least 100 places
   

systems (idiosyncratic) for muses:

1. MS: 2CETmup
2. Sutte: garage to back bedroom
   
3. Tai: synagogue, sanctuary thereof
   

Method of loci
sacred <--> practical
the liberal arts: education proper to a freeman (Latin: liber) as opposed to a slave

* the Trivium
1. grammar
2. rhetoric
3. logic

* the Quadrivium
4. geometry
5. arithmetic
6. music
7. astronomy

or: G GRAMLAD

Cabinets of curiosities (Wunderkammer)
"encyclopedic collections, ... precursors to museums"
Bruno , burned at the stake as a heretic by the Roman Inquisition in 1600 (Hamlet in London)

More recent assessments, beginning with the pioneering work of Frances Yates, suggest that Bruno was deeply influenced by magical views of the universe inherited from Arab astrological magic, Neoplatonism and Renaissance Hermeticism.

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan Spence
The Gallery of Memory by Lina Bolzoni
The Alphabet versus the Goddess by Leonard Shlain

You Bet Your Life, 1950-61, Groucho Marx