the memory palace

Episode 172: The Existential Tourist

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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

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