Ooh, anecdote time! As an experiment, many years ago I memorized the first book of paradise lost: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/inde

Ooh, anecdote time! As an experiment, many years ago I memorized the first book of paradise lost: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/index.shtml http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/inde... ...at the start, two or four lines a day. At the end? Two or four lines a day. Nothing improved. But I did memorize the whole goddamned thing.