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"Would you like to remember everything?" Mr. Jakov said. "Yes." "To remember is not always a blessing." "I would like to remember everything." "Then you will need a mind palace, to store things in. A palace in your mind." "Does it have to be a palace?" "It will grow to be enormous like a palace," Mr. Jakov said. "So it might as well be beautiful. What is the most beautiful room you know, a place you know very well?" "My mother's room," Hannibal said. "Then that's where we'll begin."