2025-07-26
13 分钟This is the memory palace.
I'm Nate DiMeo.
I am going to do a couple of things I don't usually do here.
I'm going to tell you a story about myself from my own history.
I keep finding myself telling it.
I had a book of memory palace stories come out last November and did book events at readings and interviews and stuff.
This specific memory or set of memories or memory set among the context of other memories,
however it really is that memory really works.
keeps coming to mind.
This one story just keeps coming out.
It has been my go-to answer to a question I keep getting asked.
And I have become so quick to go to that answer that I have at times found myself mid-answer in mid-telling of this story,
regretting having started telling it,
suddenly wondering whether I'm just giving some pat answer
as though there was something less than sincere happening,
that this is some sort of canned response.
Like some script handed to someone with a headset at a call center to help them answer common questions about health insurance claims or clearing printer jams.
And this is a thing for me as just like a person in the world.
I have a hang-up.
I tend to distrust words that come too easily.