The Last City: Lisbon, Pessoa, and the Death of the Unique

We ruined this place too, guys

Ryan Frawley
Globetrotters
Published in
7 min readMar 27, 2024

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Lisbon, Portugal. Photo by author.

This is the last city

Beyond here, there’s nothing. Ne plus ultra, the Romans carved on the Pillars of Hercules at the narrow neck where Spain almost, almost touches Africa.

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Ryan Frawley
Globetrotters

Novelist. Essayist. Former entomologist. Now a full-time writer exploring travel, art, philosophy, psychology, and science. www.ryanfrawley.com