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25 → N-L
Learn the techniquehow the Major System turns digits into wordswhere to put the pegs: memory palaces
illustration: nail

photo (adapted): Cluster-2 by tinspoon from Saarlouis, CC BY 2.0

N (2) + L (5): nail driven flush with one blow.

A carpenter's 16d nail pinched upright on a beam, the hammer blow driving it home. N is the nasal thud of the mallet, L is the long silence of a clean hit.

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