October 4, 2015

Chimen Abramsky Kept Soviet Committee Reports, Marx and Lenin's Old Books, Rare Torahs, and 20,000 Other Volumes in His London Home

The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that memory was "the treasure-house of the ideas supplied by Invention." They took this metaphor very seriously. To them, visualizing things in time and space was central to the art of remembrance. In the first century A.D., Quintilian developed an elegant technique that has withstood the test of time.

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