{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Fernando Pessoa #05 - Lisbon With Its Houses","description":"\n Using his hometown as the main image of the poem, Pessoa here\n touches on the feeling of nostalgia which arises out of insomnia: "I\n want to imagine anything, & something else always comes up". In our\n modern vocabulary, we might say that he suffers from anxiety,\n but, what does this really mean? Might this not just be a way to bury a\n profound act of consciousness under the sod of a clinic definition? The speaker wants to go to sleep, but can't because there is always\n another image, another sound, another thought to be contemplated;\n another feeling, another memory, another sensation to be perceived.\n Insomnia, in this sense, points toward a heightened state of awareness,\n a continual peeling off of the self from itself (i.e. Sartre's\n being-for-itself) which aims with all its might at sleep, here a symbol\n for a kind of being that simply "is" or that "is and is nothing else".\n","author_name":"The Smelting Process Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/www.jwmulligan.wordpress.com","html":"