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Palimpsest
Palimpsest
pal·imp·sest /ˈpaləm(p)ˌsest/
Noun
pal·imp·sest /ˈpaləm(p)ˌsest/
Noun
a manuscript that has been erased and written on again, with faint traces of the original writing still visible
"Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers those that came before."
James A. Secord (1953 -)
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