Think of a pointer as a long envelope capable of carrying a letter representation of whatever is in the memory location, that it is hovering over. I think of it as beige in color and parchment in card stock and that, what are contained in the memory slots are business letterheads all ready to be printed out by the printer.
Let’s say our long envelope hovers over memory slot #5. The letter document gets added to the beige envelope, and if we want to daisy chain that to the document in slot #7, we would easily travel over and skip slot #6 (because we move in sequential line order), to access and de-reference the document in slot #7. With the slot #7 document appended, we go ahead and print out what were contained in Pointer Beige Envelope #1.