David Naimon
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4,074 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Aug
David Naimon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's this immense statue that requires, I think, probably eight or twelve or fifteen people to carry a statue of Lucy that portrays her with a dagger stuck in her neck.
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And holding her eyeballs out on an outstretched platter.
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And the festivities felt to us almost, or to me, almost pre-Christian, or maybe another way of putting it, they felt like they retained many pagan elements.
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The chanting of her name, Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia, over and over again, the throwing of things from balconies down to her as she passed, the evil.
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Eating of cookies that were shaped like her eyes.
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It was really just, it was mesmerizing.
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So for Lucy's 50th birthday, we went back specifically to have a trip organized around both processions, not just the one that we accidentally stumbled upon.
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And during that trip, we encountered the other famed female martyr saint of Sicilian origin, martyred earlier than Lucy.
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Saint Agatha, who had her breasts removed as part of her torture.
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And like Lucy, she holds them forth on a platter while also still often possessing her breasts at the same time in the portrayals, just as Lucy often is shown with her eyes and also with her removed eyeballs before her.
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And like Lucy's eye pastries, there are breast-shaped pastries with these.
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cherry red nipples that are eaten in her honor.
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And Agatha is a s is a spirit that hovers over your book in many ways, I think.
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So I was hoping you'd present her to us and also your particular interest in her.
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And lastly, if you had any thoughts about how these women are powerful through this mutilation of their bodies.
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And I'm not meaning to draw a parallel to your book, Tell Me How It Ends, where if I remember correctly, something like eighty percent of the women traveling through Mexico to the border in the hopes of crossing are raped at some point on the journey.
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But nevertheless, I can't help but think that
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about the status of women and about women's autonomy over their own bodies when I think of both of these saints, who are so r revered and in some regards extremely powerful.
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And yet also through this sacrifice of their bodies on behalf of their spirits.
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I hope you're a future mayor of the town of Shakespeare at some point.
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