How an Actor Memorized "Paradise Lost" Says a Lot About How Memory Really Works

John Milton’s Paradise Lost is as epic as it gets: 60,000 words of blank verse detailing wars between angels, the original sin of mankind, and other wholesome Christian themes. Over eight years, actor John Basinger committed the whole thing — equivalent to a 350-page novel — to memory. And how he did it says a lot about how the human mind encodes and retrieves information, whether it’s a story of damnation or where you left your keys.
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