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A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.
Music
Ruth and Sylvie from Daniel Hart’s score to Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
The Walk from Bernard Hermann’s score to Tender is the Night
Reflector by Bing and Ruth
Requiem from Nico Mulhy’s score to How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Under Siege from Warren Ellis’ score to Mustang
Spaces in Time from Per Nargard and the Stavenger Symphony
Theme de l’eau from Hikaru Hayashi’s score to The Naked Island
Bus Ride from the score to Wildlike
Duke Ellington playing Single Petal from a Rose
Notes
There’s quite a bit written about Isaac Israel Hayes. You can find his own account of his trip to find the non-existant, open polar sea here.
I owe the Detroit newspaper quote to this excellent article by Albin Kowaleweski.
Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat)
Nate's Episode of the Year: If You Have to be a Floor
Episode 119 (John C. Calhoun from the Opposite Side of the Line that Divides the Living from the Dead)
Episode 118 (On the Shores of Assawompset)
Episode 117 (Elizabeth)
Episode 116 (Hoover)
Episode 115 (A Brief Eulogy for a Commercial Radio Station)
Sometimes the Rain Just Doesn't Stop
Two Small Sculptures (The Met Residency Episode 8)
Orbes Cintilantes - A special summer episode
"Relics": A Special Bonus Episode
A Scavenger Hunt (The Met Residency Episode 7)
Episode 113 (Elmer McCurdy Rides Again and Again)
Episode 112 (The Taking of Tom Sawyer's Island)
A White Horse, re-released on the second anniversary of the shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.
Episode 111 (Cipher, or Greenhow Girls)
If You Have to be a Floor (The Met Residency Episode 6)
Episode 110 (Lost Camels)
Episode 109 (The Year Hank Greenberg Hit 58 Home Runs)
Notes on a Plaque, Still Imagined
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