Orbes Cintilantes - A special summer episode

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In lieu of your standard end-of-summer re-run, here is a very special re-run. No! Wait! I mean it. It's pretty cool. Here's the thing: Todavia, a new literary publisher in Brazil has just put out a book of Memory Palace stories translated into Brazilian Portuguese. (Purchasable world-wide through this site, if you happen to be interested),

This very special re-run has all sorts of Brazil-related bonus content, including a full episode of Helen Zaltzman's, The Allusionist. Subscribe to that fine podcast, here.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, this is Nate Demayow and I have a special episode for you here in the Dog Days of Summer.
0:06.4	It is Winter where I am. If I've timed the release of the show correctly and if my flight didn't
0:11.6	get screwed up or something, I am currently in Brazil. And this episode is about what I'm doing there.
0:17.2	The quick version is I am on my way right now to do or I've just done or I did months ago,
0:22.5	depending on when you actually hear this. A reading as part of a book release party.
0:27.8	Totovia, which is a literary publisher in Brazil, has recently released a book that collects
0:33.1	60 stories from the memory palace, as translated into Brazilian Portuguese by Catano Galindo.
0:39.7	And so today, I've got a different spin on your classic end of summer rerun.
0:44.9	This episode here is going to include three things. The first up is an old episode of the
0:49.6	memory palace called Distance. And that will be followed by a new version of Distance read for you
0:54.6	in Portuguese by someone who speaks the language much better than I do. And after that,
0:59.3	we've got a full episode of my friend and fellow radio tobian Helen Zoltzman's delightful podcast
1:04.7	about language called the Illusionist, in which she talks to me and Caetano about the art of
1:09.9	translation and about how this whole memory palace book thing went down. I hope you enjoy it and
1:15.0	I will be back with new episodes in the beginning of September.
1:18.0	This is the memory palace. I'm Nate de Mayo. When she found out they were going to shoot her
1:28.0	husband into space, Annie Glen wanted to talk to her minister. They were faithful people, the
1:34.0	Glens, devout, Ohio Presbyterians, believers deep down. And when John Glen was chosen to be one of
1:40.7	the Mercury astronauts, Annie Glen wanted to make sure that that was okay, that man could leave the
1:46.4	planet and stay in God's good graces, or that the heavens weren't actually heaven. Her minister
1:54.0	consulted the scriptures and found no good reason to keep her husband earth bound. And so on a
2:00.0	March day in 1962, while John waited in a small metal capsule atop a 94 foot rocket, for the clouds
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