Digital Obelisk

A pre-mortem memorial.

Hello, I am Adriano, the webmaster of this blog.

This blog was born at the end of February 2023 and has a threefold purpose:

  1. The first one comes from the need to psychically digest and metabolize what will be my inevitable departure. In a nutshell: my death. I have not yet come to terms with what will happen when I die, nor what to do with the one attempt to impose my imprint on the universe. So I hope that writing can help me come to an acceptance of what is in fact the absurd human condition.
  2. While my body is organic, decaying and inherently mortal, perhaps “copying” a part of my consciousness on a hard drive can give me a vague (false?) sense of “eternalizing” myself. Hence also the name of the site: “Digital Obelisk”; may this site act as a virtual obelisk to my memory.
  3. Finally, this blog also serves to remind myself of who I was in the past, and in general as a drawer full of memories.

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This blog is hosted through the services of Lysianthus (Thank you, Lysianthus!) and generated through Hugo.

I mainly upload longer thoughts here. For short form thoughts, there is Grains of Sand (I still have to translate that, sorry).

For more information about the things I write, you can read the about page. If you want to write to me instead, you can send an email.

Thank you.