Episode 172: The Existential Tourist

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.

Music

Memory Waltz from Bernard Herrmann's score to The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Pink Champagne from Harry Warren's score to An Affair to Remember
Jonalah from the Chico Hamilton Quintet
Brouillard, version 2 from Delerue's Jules et Jim score
Living by Sebastian Plano

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is the memory palace.
0:02.6	I'm Nate DeMail.
0:05.5	Simone de Beauvoir wanted to go for a walk.
0:08.0	It was a lovely afternoon.
0:09.9	The sun high, the air clear.
0:12.3	Warmer than the January she'd known at home in Paris.
0:15.5	She noted that New York was on the same line of latitude as Lisbon.
0:19.4	And she could feel it in the weight of the atmosphere, a southern humidity, not disagreeable.
0:25.7	Everything had been thus far in her journey, just three days after she'd touched down from
0:29.9	her first flight, her first transatlantic journey.
0:33.3	The ocean all is shimmer from above.
0:35.7	The frosted air strip in Nova Scotia.
0:38.1	The New England by air.
0:39.9	Roads and rivers, shining vines, winding across the rolling land below.
0:45.5	The first weeks of 1947, those first years after the war.
0:49.9	The freedom, a relief.
0:52.8	That is impossible to grasp now, but you can feel it in the diary she kept during her
0:56.9	first trip to America.
0:59.1	A fizzing enthusiasm.
1:00.8	A mousseau.
1:01.8	Unexpected from the doyanne of existentialism.
1:05.2	The very French, very elegant, philosopher, feminist thinker, and novelist.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nate DiMeo, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Nate DiMeo and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.