the memory palace

Episode 105: Amok

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Music

  • This piece has two selections from Saunder Jurriens and Danny Bensi's score to Christine, Yes But and Back to Work.

    • Notes

    • This very good article in the Museum of Hoaxes gives a nice overview and links out to the original article.
    • Hampton Sides In the Kingdom of Ice has a nice telling of the story with a lot of background on the editor of the Herald.
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