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Welcome to my website! Stay around and have a look at what I have to offer.
About BasilMy name is Basil.4 Most of my time is spent deep in thought about the world around me. At risk of sounding pretentious, a threshold of which I have already passed, I believe my thoughts are worth sharing with others on my website. That is here, and you are in here. I am in here1, make no doubt.
For general discussion and niceties, you can contact me directly at null@hwii.net. I also maintain a Fediverse profile at @nytalvi@lgbtqia.space, although I do not post very often and my posts usually aren't too interesting. That is to say, these are my only official contacts and other ones may not be used or may even be fake.3
Getting tired of all of these phone calls!5
In what is perhaps the most honest and most mature forms this website has taken, I present to you the vault of my own ideas and projects. Depending on the point in time that you are reading, I may not have many things here yet. That is okay, and I plan to take good care of this place for you.2
I hope that you will find this website's design more pleasing and easier to parse. The headings are now found on the left side of the page, so they should interrupt your reading less. This will be especially beneficial when I start adding more long-form writings to this site. You will also find the references section below. I think it makes sense for me to have a sort of commentary section, even for things as simple as the index page. This is because I have a tendency to write somewhat aphoristically, and I don't want to drown my message with explanations, thus I have separated them.
A large amount of the references I make are either obscure or difficult to notice, but it would feel incomplete if I had left them out or failed to provide explanations for them. I hope that this effort will help you in understanding the sort of person I am and how I think about things.
References
1: "I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies. My posture is consciously congruent to the shape of my hard chair.
This is a cold room in University Administration, wood-walled, Remington-hung, double-windowed against the November heat,
insulated from Administrative sounds by the reception area outside, at which Uncle Charles, Mr. deLint and I were lately received.
I am in here." Opening to Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
Exactly what I meant by "I am in here," besides being a reference to one of my favorite coffee table books is that glimpses of my being are here in this website, as they are in everything that I make. Am I not my products? If this is all you know of me, then you must understand the importance of what I am saying to you, for it defines everything you know about my life.
2: Despite being a promise I have made many times, including in previous iterations of this website, I approve of this message.
3: I do own other accounts and profiles on various platforms, but I have omitted them because I don't think they'll be of much use to anyone. If you discover one of these accounts, you are welcome to contact me. I would, however, recommend that you verify it's mine via e-mail first.
4: My name makes reference to a number of things. The most important ones are threefold:
- Basil, one of the main characters in the video game Omori. Despite not having played much of the game myself (although I have enjoyed its manga adaptation), I believe that such a seemingly simple but inwardly complex and broken character, which is my understanding of him, represents a good part of me.
- Saint Basil the Great, one of the early Christian theologians and defenders of the Blessed Trinity from heresy. He is venerated in the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, and even Anglican and Lutheran churches. I believe that he, as any saint, is a model of Christian virtue and should be studied by all who seek to be like Christ and to be a saint themselves.
- Basil, or Ocimum basilicum, a beautiful plant, a nice treat, and one of my preferred seasonings on pasta.
5: I'm just kidding, no one calls me.
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