In France her tutor had once taught her that to truly fix an image in the mind to fasten it down completely so that it remained forever captive and vivid she should carefully name each aspect of the thing to herself as though she were describing it to a blind person. "For ma petite such is the fickleness of the human mind that it soon lets go of whatever it sees if you would keep it you must tack it down with words." She had tried it and found that it worked on flowers rooms faces ceremonies.
In the novel "Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles" by Margaret George, the protagonist recalls a lesson from her tutor in France about the importance of naming things to remember them vividly. The tutor advised that by describing an object as if to a blind person, one can fix the image in the mind permanently. This technique reveals the fragility of human memory, suggesting that we often forget what we...
