... FIRST PLACE: ASSOCIATION problem is that you've usually associated subcon-sciously, without recognizing the association for what it was. Anything you clearly associated, even if subcon-sciously, ... you'll do it automatically. It does take some imagination to form ridiculous pictures in your mind. It's unfortunate that those "wheels" of imagination, observation,. curiosity, ... the father of the art of trained memory, scraps of parch-1 ment dating back a thousand years or so before Simonides state that memory techniques were an essen-tial part of the orator's...