Word of the Day: “Palimpsest”

Palimpsest (noun): “A manuscript that has been written more than once with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible.”

Notes: First heard in Zork III. More recently the title of Gore Vidal’s first memoir which I just bought and am very excited to read.

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4 Replies to “Word of the Day: “Palimpsest””

  1. There’s a quality Smog song, Palimpsest, opening his recent album, A River Ain’t Too Much To Love. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5kzsa9uge23a

  2. There’s a quality Smog song, Palimpsest, opening his recent album, A River Ain’t Too Much To Love. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5kzsa9uge23a

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