Episode 173: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
the memory palace
Nate DiMeo
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
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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
Waltz for Sky by Muriel Botsdorp
A Gathering to Lead me When You're Gone by Brian McBride
20 (Lichen) by Brendan Eder Ensemble
Electronium Movie Score by Raymond Scott
Someday We'll Linger in the Sun by Gaelynn Lea
32 (Harp) by Nearly Oratorio
Notes
- By far the most fun and helpful thing I read for this episode was Michael O'Malley's, Keeping Watch: A History of American Time.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the memory palace. I'm Nate de Mayo. |
| 0:07.3 | Time had changed. |
| 0:09.3 | It used to be you woke up with the sun, rose to the rooster, |
| 0:12.7 | got done what you could with the light that God had given you. |
| 0:15.9 | Every purpose under heaven according to a time kept by the seasons, |
| 0:20.7 | by the shadows, by your own dark figure cast upon your garden, |
| 0:25.4 | stretched by the waning of the day. |
| 0:28.0 | It had been that way since time immemorial, |
| 0:32.0 | although remembering the time wasn't the issue, it was knowing it in the first place. |
| 0:36.4 | There was the sundial, the Babylonians came up with that one, |
| 0:40.3 | could have been the Egyptians, but either way it worked okay for a few thousand years, |
| 0:45.1 | as long as it wasn't cloudy or nighttime. |
| 0:47.8 | Then a French monk came up with the hourglass, |
| 0:51.2 | with which people mostly did monk things. |
| 0:53.9 | Do this prayer until the sand runs out, |
| 0:56.7 | flip it, do another prayer. |
| 0:59.5 | That was about 14 hundred years ago. |
| 1:02.2 | Then there were many inventors in many countries trying their hands at clockmaking. |
| 1:06.6 | There were water clocks, there were clocks based upon the measurement of burning candles, |
| 1:11.4 | there were mechanical clocks, even those marvelous ones in European cities, |
| 1:16.2 | where some metal lion in a crown comes out to hit him bell with a mallet to mark high newmen or whatnot. |
| 1:22.2 | And these were impressive feats of engineering, |
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