Palimpsest

by | May 8, 2013 | photo, reading & writing, transportation | 1 comment

Palimpsest

palimpsest |ˈpalimpˌsest|

noun
a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.
• something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form: Sutton Place is a palimpsest of the taste of successive owners.

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  1. Ben Brophy
    Ben Brophy on May 8, 2013 at 8:23 am

    My only previous reading of that word was when I was studying Indian history, but this quote rom Nehru really stuck with me:

    She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously. All of these had existed in our conscious or subconscious selves, though we may not have been aware of them. And they have gone to build up the complex mysterious personality of India.

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