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 ==== Reding notes ====
+=== Stephen Muecke on speaking with Paddy Roe ===
+//“Not only was his (Paddy) knowledge not reproduced in books like the ones he nevertheless wanted to write with me, but it had nothing to do with authorship. Knowledge didn’t originate with individuals, and the concept of mind was irrelevant. Knowledge was on the outside; it was held in ‘living Country’. And humans had to get together to animate this knowledge.\\
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+As Paddy and I were walking the beautiful coastline north of Broome, he would point out things, tell stories, call out to ancestors, and sing songs that belonged to particular places. The songs were important because they were inspirational (in the original Latin sense of a truth being breathed into someone). Their significance was, and is, multiple: they are handed down from ancestors; they tie human and nonhuman worlds together and animate those connections; they are mnemonic and practical, reminding people, for instance, that this is the place of yarrinyarri, the bush onion.\\
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+But how on Earth does knowledge transfer work without a concept of mind? Understanding, for Paddy, was ‘hearing’ and that was the word he used (as in, ‘that man can’t hear’), equivalent to the French entendre, which also embraces the meanings of hearing and understanding.”//
 === Biggest Estate ===
 Bill Gamage, //Biggest Estate on Earth//:
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   * pg 126 from far away they can discuss a tree or creek and who is responsible for it
   * pg 127 shape signifies life, in death they loose shape, so all things with shape have soul  / Julian Barbour geometry is fundamental to the universe
   * pg 127 the soul passes from one chariot to another and this gives creation order, it moves through a particular set of things created by the same ancestor in the Dreaming.
+  *
 === Memory Craft ===
+Theun:
+  * The first step is looking at what structure / order makes sense for your 'data': ordered by alphabet, history, habitat, species, colour, etc.
+  * Do I store it linearly in geography? (for example a timeline)
+  * Or grouped in a mind palace?(for example species)
+  * I go through a process of a few days figuring out what the most useful ordering might be and small tests with 5 or so elements trying out ways of storing.
+  * I make small sketches to settle the narrative, otherwise variants keep coming up.
+  * Sketching also helps to figure out how much character I need to generate to capture details.
+  * If characters are needed, what action and prop can I give them?
+  * Later in the process I can see if I need extra emphasis using the physicality of make visible or tangible artefacts to endorse the memories?
+  * Lynne says that once established you will be inclined to do additional research on your subjects, I can confirm that. Making a mind-palace or walk, does trigger curiosity and you start to add more and more details into your subects, hooks, nodes.. (I observe this even after only two or three weeks of full-on experience.)
 Lynne Kelly, //Memory Craft//:
+=== First order your data: ===
+No matter what topic you choose, as soon as you have your information structured into some sort of order, you are ready to go.
 === Repeat: ===
 I make new associations at a rate of perhaps a few a day, and revise them later that day, the next day, in a week, and again in a month if I need to.
+=== Don’t worry there is enough detail: ===
+I kept expecting to strike trouble making up images or puns or other ways to make the families and species memorable. But whenever I pondered for a moment, playing with the name and letting my mind wander, I always found a link to the bead or shell, or the position on the board, or the grain of the wood.
 === Naming places: ===
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   * Sixteen members of the duck family needed to be attached to one bead, which took a story. The story became a tale of a football match that ends in a massive brawl. The names of the first eight ducks became the players involved in this fight. Two tea ladies came onto the field at half-time (the grey teal and the chestnut teal) and the Australasian shoveler dug graves to bury the dead. The musk duck wore musky cologne for seduction in the stands, while the hardhead duck clobbered the pink-eared duck around the ears and left others black and blue with bruises, the blue-winged and the blue- billed ducks.
   * I chose to remember the sixteen ducks in that order because those close to each other in the narrative are also similar scientifically. Those in the same genus I turned into partners, like the two tea ladies. Those tags just give me a bit more information. I now have sixteen duck-characters on which to build with more and more information about their identification and habits.
-=== Don’t worry there is enough detail: ===
-I kept expecting to strike trouble making up images or puns or other ways to make the families and species memorable. But whenever I pondered for a moment, playing with the name and letting my mind wander, I always found a link to the bead or shell, or the position on the board, or the grain of the wood.
 === Tactile works too: ===