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Memory, which the book’s author describes as “the treasure- house of the ideas supplied by Invention . .. the guardian of all *A 2009 paper in the neuropsychology journal Neurocase, “A Slice of Pi: An Exploratory Neuroimaging Study of Digit Encoding and Retrieval in a Superior Memorist,” described tests on a subject who had used the method of loci to memorize n to more than 216 decimal places.

Offered in conjunction with the exhibition “Swedish Wooden Toys,” the event will include Ms. Chen’s piece “The Memorist,” which draws on Lewis Carroll, Humpty Dumpty and her own childhood.

Thus I am competent, I think, to speak on a subject curiously neglected by the memorist.