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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that much of this cracking apart is happening at such a scale and so many different ways at the same time that it is completely unmooring from having a sense of control.
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But there's a way that all that is happening in this book, the storms and impending eclipse, these different winds that bring with them discrete mythological valences.
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These give the sense that things aren't falling apart or just falling apart, but also that they're being remade, and that perhaps that we aren't the storyteller, but caught within the countervailing moods of the spirits and the gods.
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you talk about the etymology of chaos, one origin is that of a cosmic cleft.
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And thinking of that cosmic cleft, we of course think of Mount Etna erupting, but also I think of these lines in the book about our protagonists' menstruation.
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Quote,
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Before we leave I go to the bathroom.
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Heavy period, cavernous, purple, thick, and almost gelatinous, lava like.
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The thicker clots are expelled with spasmodic moans and contractions of the uterine muscles, which I hope will be tempered by the two ibuprofen swimming in my pocket.
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that we're at the mercy of a geologic and cosmic cleft that is as much birthing something else and other as it is also carrying something away.
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And I think of how the bells of Saint Agatha's Church in Catania are resounding through the book too.
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Agatha, who's the patron saint, protecting people from natural disasters, whose miraculous veil that contained her relics protected the people from an Etna eruption in 252 AD, stopping the lava from flowing.
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She's also the patron saint of the bell founders because of the fire used to forge the bells, because the blacksmith tools are like the torture devices used to remove her breasts, because the bells were used to warn people, so you could imagine this sound like a veil cast across the island.
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And this next question for you is about sound.
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From the two time Grammy Award winning sound engineer Charles de Montebello.
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Who's worked with everyone from John Stewart to Francis McDormott to Stephen Colbert to Michelle Williams to Valeria Luiselli.
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So here's a question for you from Charles.
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I didn't know when I ro reached out to him.
I I quickly learned.
I quickly learned.
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