If you live north of the Equator, Sunday is the longest day of the year. Here in New York, we’ll get about 15 hours of daylight. In Sommaroy, Norway, it’s 24 — as it is every day from mid-May to late July. Given these many weeks when the sun never sets, Sommaroy in 2019 petitioned the government to dispense with clocks and establish a “time-free zone.” It turned out the whole thing was a hoax to gin up tourism, but I’m still intrigued by the notion of living without time. Here are some ideas for using up all that extra daylight this week.

On this week’s list:

1. A memory workout

2. A game that’s just challenging enough

3. Endless playlist

4. Knicks on Broadway

5. From ‘pingy clack’ to ’rounded thock’

6. An antidote to worry

1.

A memory workout

John Basinger, believed to be the only person to have memorized all 10,565 lines of John Milton’s poem “Paradise Lost,” died recently at 92. In his obituary, we learned that Basinger “devoted himself to pursuits that some would have dismissed as fanciful.” One example: walking from New York to San Francisco. (I have a lot of questions about this walk! How long did it take? Highways or surface roads? In what shoes?)

It took Basinger nearly nine years to nail “Paradise Lost.” His method was integrated into his gym routine, as the obituary describes in some detail:

He would memorize seven new lines on the exercise bike and, while lifting weights, would review the last 14 lines he had studied, leaving with a sweaty command of 21 lines of verse.

How smart — if he struggled with a verse, I imagine, he had to keep working out until he got it right, so he’d have the added benefit of extra exercise. Basinger called his undertaking a “12-step program against Alzheimer’s.”