Episode 154: Dotting I's
the memory palace
Nate DiMeo
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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This episode was commissioned by the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts
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MUSIC
Amalgamation Waltz 1839 by Joep Beveng
Now by Goldmund
Wander On from Joel P West's score to Band of Robbers.
Tomato Day by Kelpe.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | A content warning, this episode deals with and depicts a suicide. |
| 0:07.1 | This is the memory palace. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Nate DeMoeu. |
| 0:11.7 | On the afternoon of March 14, 1932, George Eastman asked his doctor and nurses to give him |
| 0:18.2 | a moment. |
| 0:19.2 | They were there for a routine check-in as they were most days then. |
| 0:23.8 | Eastman was 77. |
| 0:25.8 | His health had been declining for years. |
| 0:28.8 | He had a condition that was most likely spinal stenosis, a degenerative narrowing of the |
| 0:33.9 | sheath that holds the spinal nerves. |
| 0:36.8 | But his doctors didn't know to call it that then. |
| 0:40.0 | Didn't understand just what was causing Eastman so much pain, just that it had been bad |
| 0:46.1 | for nearly a decade at that point, that it had gotten worse, and that it would only |
| 0:51.0 | get worse from here on out. |
| 0:55.2 | His friends knew it too. |
| 0:57.3 | They certainly didn't have to be doctors to see it. |
| 1:00.4 | They had noticed when he started to walk slowly, and then with the shuffle, then with his |
| 1:05.3 | foot dragging, and when he couldn't walk at all, that was hard to watch. |
| 1:12.2 | His closest friends, people who would go with him to hear music, or come hang out at his |
| 1:16.8 | house. |
| 1:17.8 | The grand one he'd built on East Avenue in Rochester, New York, where he'd had tall trees |
| 1:22.0 | planted so he could sit out on the front porch and not have everyone driving by, slowing |
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