Living The Book of Disquiet Podcast
1) Speaking to No One in the Age of Content
Hey FP,You're a loner. I'm a loner. The writer Anneli Rufus is a loner. That shared condition is what pulled me back into her book Party of One: A Lonerâs Manifesto, which has also sent me back to you...Show More
2) Pessoa, c'est nous?
Good morning FP,I was lying in bed half an hour ago wondering if I should stop writing to you, stop trying to connect to another human being through the medium of writing. For this is a peculiar game ...Show More
3) Do We Need Anybody? (We Need Somebody to Love)
FP, in this missive I write to you about addiction and abstinence, about Bhavesh and me spending an evening without our respective substances, and the idea that therapy, like religion, depends on conf...Show More
4) Everybody Needs A Bosom For A Pillow
Hello FP, and thank you for being here.Hereâs a new missive Iâve written for you about friendship and soulmates, dogs and gods, addiction, vanity, longing, kingship, numerology, therapy, loneliness, Y...Show More
5) Beyond The Yellow Brick Road
You, whose coming is so gentle that it resembles a departure,Whose ebb and flow of darkness, when the moon exhales,Contains waves of dead affection, cold as a sea of dreams,Breezes from landscapes fas...Show More
6) Dream Action
"I have to choose what I detest â either dreaming, which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasnât born, or dreaming, for which no one was born....Show More
7) The Dignity of Tedium
"He had furnished his two rooms with a semblance of luxury, no doubt at the expense of certain basic items. He had taken particular pains with the armchairs, which were soft and well-padded, and with ...Show More
8) Schubert's Ghost: Essence and Nihility (Fragment 363)
This episode is about Schubert's awful and awesome bohemian life/music/death; a Victor Hugo sonnet from "Les Contemplations" ("La mort et la beauté sont deux choses profondes"); K.G. Nishitani on Nihi...Show More
9) Fragment 88: The Father of My Soul
A "Father Archetype" soul collage for Pessoaâs Fragment 88: âWho am I, finally, when Iâm not playing? A poor orphan left out in the cold among sensations, shivering on the street corners of Reality,...Show More
10) Fragment 307: Basic Trust (The Song Thrush)
An audio-visual Soul Collage created in response to Fernando Pessoaâs Fragment 307 (from The Book of Disquiet): âAESTHETICS OF DISCOURAGEMENT Since we canât extract beauty from life, letâs at least...Show More