The Obliviscium
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Jones-Monserrate, Gabriella Vanessa. 2024. The Obliviscium. Master's thesis, Harvard University Division of Continuing Education.Abstract
In the Obliviscium, information is just asmortal as a person. When knowledge falls out of the collective human consciousness, it
goes to “die” in the archival library of the afterlife, where it is perusable by the
inhabitants of life-after-death. In this digital fairy tale, a young woman named Nima
accidentally deletes herself from living memory and slips into this liminal world. While
searching for a way back to her old life, she discovers that this new world is in crisis and
becomes embroiled in a high-stakes race to stop its destruction.
As the book itself is meant to visually mimic some of the random content that can
be found in the archives of the afterlife, some chapters will be written in verse, others as
diary entries, some as fragments of a document shredded long ago and meticulously reassembled. This structure is intentional to disseminate worldbuilding information about
the protagonist, her daily experiences, the interactions she has with patrons of the library
archives, and her eventual journey into the wilds of purgatory.
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