Episode 87 (Victory)

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

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

Do you live in Toronto? Chicago? Milwaukee? Minneapolis? How about L.A.? Come see the Memory Palace live this May.

SPOILERS BELOW

Music * We hear Portrait Gallery from Luke Howard. * A smidgen of Julia Kent's lovely Dorval. * The incomparable Moondog's Gloving It pops up a couple times (as it tends to do around these parts). * Denmark by the Portland Cello Project rolls out for quite awhile. * John Lewis and Sacha Distel play the title track from their Afternoon in Paris album. * We hear To, from Zach Cooper's Styles Upon Styles. * There's a bit of Eine Kleine Gamelan Music from The Gamelan Son of Lion (seriously). * Ends on P, by Labradford.

NOTES * The classic text on Charlie Faust is Lawrence Ritter's The Glory of Their Times:the Story of the Early Days of Baseball as Told by the Men Who Played It, one of the key texts of early baseball history, first published in 1966. * The definitive resource on Faust is Gabriel Schecter, who's written his biography for SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research, and a monograph called Victory Faust: The Rube Who Saved McGraw's Giants. * I also want to point you to Rob Neyer's lovely piece on visiting Faust's grave.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace.
0:02.0	I'm Nate Dimeo.
0:04.0	Charlie's father had come all the way from Germany, found his way to the middle of America, found
0:09.4	his plot of land, got married, had four kids, expected them to work the farm, and take it
0:15.2	over one day.
0:17.0	That is why you leave Germany in 1880-something and come all the way to Kansas.
0:21.0	That's the point, but...
0:24.5	Something was off with Charlie Victor Fast.
0:27.8	Something was atypical, as we might say now, with the way his brain worked.
0:33.4	History hasn't left us enough clues to sort out quite what.
0:36.5	We're just left to try and translate, to take some of the language that people use to
0:40.8	talk about them then.
0:42.5	Slow, idiot, crazy, simple.
0:47.8	And try to find a name, a diagnosis, that matches up with our current understanding of the
0:52.4	brain and behavior, and try to pin it down before that understanding changes.
0:57.3	And we wind up wondering just what we were thinking about what he was thinking.
1:01.4	But there was something different about Charlie.
1:03.4	Always was.
1:04.4	And it meant that he was not cut out to run his father's farm.
1:07.7	And he probably knew it.
1:09.6	Probably was aware in his way that his father knew it.
1:13.1	But he stayed on the farm, never liking the farm.
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