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The brain insisting on a 2am meeting nobody scheduled, agenda unknown, adjournment unlikely.

means The persistent inability to fall or stay asleep.

from A straightforward English compound: 'sleep' plus 'less' (lacking) plus the noun-forming suffix '-ness.' 'Sleep' traces back to Old English 'slæp,' shared with other Germanic languages, while '-less' comes from Old English 'leas,' meaning free of or without. No myth here — just English stacking honest parts to name an honest misery.

irony clause
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