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It took me a long time to get into the book because I was distracted by the various techniques of improving memory. Once I decided that merely reading through the book once was not going to make me a mental athlete, I gave myself over to the story and enjoyed sections of it. And the part I enjoyed most was on the creation of books (which cause us to dis-remember) and alphabets and writing and codexes. My biggest take-away was downloading a copy of Rhetorica ad Herennium because I was interested
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