59. One To Another
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2017
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Translation, A Love Story:
Translator listens to The Allusionist. Translator hears about the podcast The Memory Palace. Translator listens to The Memory Palace. Translator immediately becomes smitten with The Memory Palace. Translator translates The Memory Palace from English to Brazilian Portuguese, and turns it into a book – O Palácio da Memória – which will be published in Brazil two weeks hence.
But, like any love story, it’s not quite that simple.
Literary translator Caetano Galindo recounts the trials and treats of turning Nate DiMeo’s English language audio into Brazilian Portuguese text.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the illusionist, in which I, Helen Zoltzman, rescue language from the cupboard under the stairs and whiskered away to a magical boarding school. |
| 0:12.0 | Coming up in today's show, the art of translation, not in the 14th century sense of the word translation relocating saints' bodies or fragments thereof. |
| 0:21.0 | Sorry to disappoint. |
| 0:25.0 | On with the show. |
| 0:31.0 | Many of you have heard Nate Domeo on his podcast The Memory Palace. |
| 0:38.0 | This is The Memory Palace. I'm Nate Domeo. |
| 0:41.0 | And some of you have heard him on this podcast when, in one of my favourite episodes, Nate and I tried to learn the minimalist language, Toki Pona. |
| 0:49.0 | Come up on our Nate Domeo. |
| 0:51.0 | Welcome Nate Domeo. |
| 0:53.0 | Toki Helen. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello, Helen. |
| 0:55.0 | One person in particular heard about Nate Domeo on the illusionist. |
| 0:59.0 | And then I started listening to The Memory Palace. And it was a love story for me. It was something that really touched me from the very first moment. |
| 1:10.0 | That's a common response to The Memory Palace. But what happened next? Not so much. |
| 1:15.0 | So I like you, get emails now and then from listeners. And I got this really nice email from this guy in Brazil that said, hey, I'm listening Brazil. And, you know, I'm a translator and I really love it. |
| 1:28.0 | My name is Caetano Valderi Gisgarlindo and I'm a university professor and literary translator. |
| 1:35.0 | And what a lovely email to get. It's nice to think of some Brazilian man, you know, walking down the evening beach or whatever, listening to The Memory Palace. It's a cool thing. |
| 1:45.0 | So Nate writes back to him. |
| 1:47.0 | And very quickly I get a response that says, hey, I didn't expect you to write back. This is so great. |
| 1:54.0 | But meanwhile, while I have you here, which is a phrase that is very near and dear to my heart, I feel like a lot of things that I've been able to make happen for myself in my life have come from me saying, hey, while I have you here, let me pitch you this thing. |
| 2:10.0 | Since I deal with in books, I work with books. What if we could make a book out of that? |
| 2:17.0 | And so then he in a very charming, very well written way laid out his bonafitas, you know, is essentially like, listen, I know I sent him a translator, but it actually turns out like I'm the real deal. |
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