posted October 23, 2002 09:51 PM              

Does anyone know why Alfred E. Neuman's name appears under every sign in Love Signs?

thank yab.

posted June 16, 2023 01:06 AM            

I had a huge collection of Mad magazines and books when I was growing up.

posted June 16, 2023 01:08 AM            

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Originally posted by fanoflavinescry:
Hi,

Does anyone know why Alfred E. Neuman's name appears under every sign in Love Signs?

thank yab.

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I think the author was using it as a M-neuman-ic device.

"Mnemonics are memory devices that help learners recall larger pieces of information, especially in the form of lists like characteristics, steps, stages, parts, etc. We knew back in 1967 from a study by Gerald R. Miller that mnemonics increased recall."

posted July 08, 2023 12:22 AM            

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In Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion, Mnemosyne is the goddess of memory and the mother of the nine Muses by her nephew Zeus. In the Greek tradition, Mnemosyne is one of the Titans, the twelve divine children of the earth-goddess Gaia and the sky-god Uranus. The term Mnemosyne is derived from the same source as the word mnemonic, that being the Greek word mnēmē, which means "remembrance, memory".

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Mnemosyne also presided over a pool in Hades, counterpart to the river Lethe, according to a series of 4th-century BC Greek funerary inscriptions in dactylic hexameter.

Dead souls drank from Lethe so they would not remember their past lives when reincarnated.

In Orphism, the initiated were taught to instead drink from the Mnemosyne, the river of memory, which would stop the transmigration of the soul.

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