It will be easier for some to make the Memory Pictures into a story,
that is to see the Dishes thrown at the Wagon and fall off onto the
Table where they are put into a Carpet and hung up on a Fence, which
has a loaf of Bread on the top of a high picket. This story can
continue indefinitely, as long as your imagination adds to it. There is
a danger, however, in this kind of a picture; it is in the tendency to
see more than two objects in each picture. The idea may be continuous,
the picture must never be. It may be a continuous idea connecting
separate and distinct pictures but you must be sure to drop the first
object before you add the new one, so that there are but two objects in
each. Continue picturing these words in pairs as you did before, using
the story idea if it seems easier.
=Bread and Walk.=
=Walk and Lamp.=
=Lamp and School.=
=School and Stove.=
=Stove and Piano.=
Now, go back to Dishes and review the pictures, naming both objects in
each picture. Can you see each clearly? If not, strengthen the picture,
put in more motion, or make it more unusual.
Without the aid of the list go back to the House and recall the
entire series from House to Piano. After you have succeeded in this,
try to see the series of pictures and speak them as a list, thus,
House--Clock--Flowers--Circus--Soldier, etc. Do this a couple of times
until it can be done without hesitation.