From: Jack Fulton (jefulton1@attbi.com)
Date: 09/02/02-09:31:56 AM Z
Judy . . .you are exactly right and that was not clear in my description. It
is important that in the use of the palimpsest the used is aware of the past
usage of the tablet if not the information.
>
> But I believe the connotation of the word, at least as I've seen it used,
> is that some or possibly effect of the original writing remains. Thus a
> writer speaks of a memoir, or story, as a palimpsest of the past.
>
> J.
>
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