Our teacher was telling us about a new system of memory training being used in some schools today.
"It works like this," she said. "Suppose you wanted to remember the name of a poet—Robert Burns, for instance. Think of him as 'Bobby Burns.' Now, picture a London policeman—a 'bobby'—in flames. See? Bobby Burns!"
"I see what you mean," said the class know-it-all. "But how can you tell that it's not Robert Browning?"
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