Memories, like the corners of my mind...

[Blansky]

I've always been fascinated by our memories and our ability to memorize.

Actors in Broadway plays memorize their lines and often the lines of every member of the cast.

Besides understudies, there are "backup" actors, for instance that can replace any member of the cast and are even called upon to travel to another city where the play is also playing, to cover for their main cast if someone gets sick or hurt.

Shakespearean actors (mostly Brits I'm sure) can recite most of Shakespeare's plays as part of their training.

Even Hollywood actors have a knack for memory, although movie scenes are short snippets and movie scenes are shot out of order, but still a talent.

I was sitting in the bar I worked in on a cold Santa Monica winter rainy day, on a Saturday and a few people came in and one of the guys could recite and act out the entire movie of Monte Python and the Holy Grail. A masterful achievement for a rain soaked crowd drowning their sorrows on a sunless
afternoon.

Lin-Manuel Miranda who wrote and acted in Hamilton stated that when he came back to do a charity week in Puerto Rico after a year or so away from the play, when asked jokingly, if he still remembered all the lines, he said it wasn't easy because he also had in his head, about 10 different versions of each song that he'd changed when he wrote it, and THEY were still in his head as well.

An interesting article on memory...

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/h...r-their-lines/

[Bazil]

My wife has a terrible memory …
Every time I buy a new watch I’m sure I told her …
She gets angry and says no I didn’t ..
But I did ..

[AzPaul]

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