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>>8605283
The Flight to Lucifer

>memorizing Paradise Lost
That's ludicrous. A book or two of it would make sense but the whole thing?
You could also try for a canto of Dante.

>>8605283
The Iliad
Poetry of some sort desu

the Soft Machine

>>8605626
Is your objection pragmatic or aesthetic? I've only memorized a couple short poems so far. Therefore I'm not well-versed in memorization's limits or merits.

>>8607117
do you not see the challenges of memorizing 10k lines vs ~ 10 -100 lines?

>>8607122
I can see how the time commitment might differ, but I have no reason to believe that a person's memory capacity precludes memorizing large works. In fact, as I see it, much evidence (mnemonic competitions, musicians memorizing their repertoire, etc) suggest that there is no practical limit to our long-term memory.

>>8607225
>memory precluding something
>precluding
>the cognitive capacity "memory" has will and intention and foresight
>wew

Maybe read some more English before you try memorizing so much of it.

>>8607375
>precluding

Oh, to leave something out, to rule out in advance!

hamlet - its refernced in fucking everything so why not

Memorize 10000 units of pi first.