Memory

[Dog--]

I had a whole week to memorize something for my music class, and I never did one bit of work through out the whole week (I usually do it last minute), and I forgot that this week I had to memorize two pages of stuff. I memorized both of them in a half hour. I'm surprised at myself. (For people who know music, I had to remember rules for intervals and the minor scale.)


What are some things you've remembered that were long comlicated things.

 

[Dan]

Macbeth's big soliloquy, grade 6.

If were done when t'were done, then t'were well it were done quickly.
If the assassination could trammel up the consequence,
And catch with his surcese, sucesss.
That but this blow might be the be all and end all.
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,We'd jump the life to come.
But in these cases, we still have judgement here.
That we but teach bloody instructions, which being taught return to plague the inventor.
This even handed justice commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice to our own lips.
He's here in double trust, first as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed.
Then as his host, who should against his murder bar the door,
Not bear the knife myself.
Besides, this Duncan hath borne his faculties so meak,
Has been so clear in his great office,
That his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet tongued, against the deep damnation of his taking off.
And pity, like a naked newborn babe, striding the blast,
Or heaven's cherubin, horsed upon the sightless couriers of the air
Shall blow the deed in every eye.
That tears shall drown the wind.
I have no spurs to prick the sides of my intent,
But only vaulting ambition which o'er leaps itself and lands on the other.

I'm not sure about the punctuation at all, but I can say it off by heart. Also Robert Frost's "Stopping in the woods one snowy evening"

Who's woods these are, I think I know.
His house is in the village though.
He will not see me stopping here,
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer,
To stop without a farmhouse near.
Besides the wood and frozen lake.
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake,
To see if there is some mistake.
The only other sounds the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

These woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have many promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
And miles to go before I sleep.

It's about suicide, but your teacher didn't tell us that at the time.

 

[Sam]

I seem to just be able to remember some things perfectly, but others go straight away. Seriously, I can forget what I'm having a conversation about, tis wierd

 

[bryanf445]

usually material on a test im pretty good with, study the night before and do good, that kind of stuff

 

[Raeven0]

Most people can recite their favourite songs with ease. (Yet they exhibit decided difficulty remembering basic rules of English grammar.)

 

[Que-Ever]

Macbeth's big soliloquy, grade 6.


I'm not sure about the punctuation at all, but I can say it off by heart. Also Robert Frost's "Stopping in the woods one snowy evening"


It's about suicide, but your teacher didn't tell us that at the time.

ms. Floe? :O

I memorized all kinds of stuff. Jabberwocky, and some of "who's on first, what's on second". among other things.

 

[xcellerate]

I had to memorize a 5-10 minute declemation each year during high school, and then say it in front of my class, then my grade (because i was so good at it). Then i had to memorize the begining of Canterbery tales in it's original middle english or whatever it was. My school was big into public speaking, we had contests each year, where random students were chosen to give 5 minutes speeches in front of the school on a random topic and they were given only 2 minutes to prepare. I had to do one about my dorms cleanliness, which was a joke because everyone knew we were the flithiest dorm on campus.

 

[TheDan]

I can usually remember rediculous numbers... Like I can remember the square root of 2, and the 9th root of pi both to 9 decimal places.

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

I don't think I've ever had to memorize anything.

But I bet if I had to, I could talk someone through Chrono Trigger from beginning to end, with battles, and even hum the music and sound effects.

Heck I could probably do it in my sleep.

That's a good 30 hours of material.

 

[dfc05]

Then i had to memorize the begining of Canterbery tales in it's original middle english or whatever it was.

We had to do that too, and recite it in front of the teacher. And then we got extra credit if we sang it to the tune of Yankee Doodle... The only part I remember from it is something about April in the first line. April pronounced funny in Middle English.

We also read the entire prologue in Middle English, but it was illustrated, and we got extra credit for coloring it. This was in junior year of high school.

 

[xcellerate]

lol, 'wan dat april wit da sure es suta, the dract of march haz pierced to za rota, and baethed evry vein in switch la cour, of vitch ver tu, engendred is the floor"...or something like that, it goes on for a while. My teacher said, anybody who could hold a 5 minute conversation with him in this language had an A for the course, regardless.

 

[Neutrino]

Hmm, had to memorize this yesterday:

Given an n x n matrix A the following are either all true or all false:

1) A is invertible
2) A is row equivalent to the n x n identity matrix
3) The equation Ax = 0 has only the trivial solution
4) A has n pivot colums
5) There exists a matrix C, such that CA = I
6) There exists a matrix D, such that AD = I
7) The colums of A are linearly independent
8) The colums of A span R^n
9) The transpose of A is invertible
10) The equation Ax = b has a unique solution for every b.

Given v1....vp in R^n, the Span{v1....vp} is the set of all linear combinations of v1....vp and is called the subset of R^n spanned by v1....vp. It is the collectio of vectors that can be written in the form c1v1, c2v2,.....,cpvp, with c1....cp being scalars

Given v1.....vp in R^n, v1.....vp are linearly independent if the vector equation x1v1 + x2v2 +....+xpvp = 0 has only the trivial solution.


Yay, for linear algebra theorems.

 

[tvharti]

40 pages of mostly german/austrian history for my exam ...

did it in 3 days (with a bit of luck) but don't remember any details anymore ;-)

 

[ktimekiller]

sometimes, i forget what im talkign about, i forget what to do for homework, forget what my mom told me just 2 min ago, but i memorized the entire dialog of lord of the rings number 3, its weird.

 

[Dekstar]

I can pretty much remember the entire Script to 'Bill Bailey: Part Troll'. And yeah a lot of songs. but I do have a weird memory that does forget things easy unless I really want to remember them.

 

[JNightshade]

I sing, and I'm amazingly good at memorizing songs. I can sing probably 200+ songs from memory right now, and that's without any effort.

 

[Glirk Dient]

Hmm...hamlet soliloquys. The "to be or not to be" soliloquy and the "oh that this flesh blah blah".

Both of those...well not the whole thing just a large chunck of it.

 

[Ikerous]

What are some things you've remembered that were long comlicated things.

I'm still working on my phone number :|

 

[Fliko]

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interréd with their bones,
So let it be with Caesar…. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it….
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral….
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man….
He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason…. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

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I know a person who had to memorize the whole "Give me liberty or give me death" speech. God, it was an amazing feat, but after hearing that speech 'bout 20 times, it got kinda boring.