| 单词 | palimpsest |
| 例句 | The billboards had been whited out with thin coats of paint in order to write on them and through the paint could be seen a pale palimpsest of advertisements for goods which no longer existed. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z And then, deeper in the palimpsest, underneath the announcement signal and the primer, would be the real message. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But the most likely case is that interstellar communication will be a kind of palimpsest, like the palimpsests of ancient writers short of papyrus or stone who superimposed their messages on top of preexisting messages. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the movie’s themes are introduced in the first eight minutes, a masterpiece in miniature that is a palimpsest of literary, artistic and cinematic allusions. 1A. The Oscars: Manohla Dargis Looks at the Overture to ?Melancholia? 2011-12-30T17:03:44Z Such observations — and he offered several — made it easy to think of the city as a palimpsest, a place where the old makes way for the new, but never really gives up the ghost. 3 Day-Cruises Worth the Trip 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z And she exists, in this book, as a study in textual vestiges, as much palimpsest as person. How Archival Fiction Upends Our View of History 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Experimental "textual/visual palimpsests" from a professor of text arts, poetics and aesthetics at The Evergreen State College. Washington state's Gov. Booth Gardner is subject of new biography 2010-06-28T23:20:00Z This palimpsest effect brings vibrantly new existence to a work that might have seemed to have passed its sell-by date. ‘Scenes From a Marriage,’ Adapted From Ingmar Bergman 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Loving You/Crazy is a pallid palimpsest of the epic suites he used to create; Equestrian nods weakly to past glories such as Ciara's Ride. The-Dream: IV Play – review 2013-06-06T21:45:01Z Ideally, Berlin's streets would list all their names, past and present, in a living and transparent palimpsest. The naming of Berlin 2011-03-18T12:27:49Z And I suspect that what many listeners heard was a palimpsest combining the Perlman they knew from recordings with the one playing live in front of them. Itzhak Perlman, Violin Legend, Still Proves the Critics Wrong 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z In fact,“ palimpsest” denotes a form that is layered with writing or images, something that bears traces of earlier inscriptions. Review: Frye show strikes balance between family history, social commentary 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Along with providing new space for public art, Marvel’s addition will directly reference the museum’s previous expansions, which he says will play off one another “like a palimpsest of history.” 50 Years of Art in the Bronx 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z These scenes layer with voice-over of her writings to create a moving palimpsest of identity. The Tribeca Festival Returns in Full Bloom 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z It is sometimes strange to come across the palimpsest of Stow's London as we wander its streets today. Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities 2013-04-26T07:37:40Z The palimpsest includes a fox hunting club, an alpaca farm, a grandiose neoclassical lakeside house, and a community of nine houses. Glenstone’s landcaping as mindful as its artwork 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Watched again over 25 years later, Blue Velvet looks even more bizarre than ever, a disorientating palimpsest of moods and eras and genres. David Lynch's Blue Velvet: why I still can't take my eyes off it 2012-02-10T12:49:31Z They are beautifully complex palimpsests of our cultural heritage. Nathan Mabry's splendid drawings and smile-inducing sculptures 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z On the walls of St Bart's hospital, we found felt-pen slogans from fans of Sherlock Holmes, relocated from Baker Street by the recent television series, another reference in the shifting palimpsest of the city. Classic Dickens or Boz with a twist: it's all online 2013-01-20T00:05:39Z Figures in full or partial view — a bicyclist, a photographer, striding shoppers — inhabit a palimpsest of street-scene detail. Seattle artists Linda Davidson and April Surgent: mosaic mavericks 2010-12-09T20:44:00Z Sections of newspaper pages, painted with painstaking accuracy, serve as palimpsests in “Confrontation and Disruption,” Xiaoze Xie’s show at the Stanford in Washington Art Gallery. In the galleries: Looking back on a century of Iberian and Latin American works 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Dating him forces her to reconceptualize the city not as a symbol—a palimpsest of elsewheres—but as a real location. Leslie Jamison and the Anxiety of Authorship 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The unfettered license that male writers have enjoyed when it comes to holding up every stain in the sheets as a palimpsest of their smarting, solipsistic souls is due for an overhaul. A Novel of the Horndog in Winter 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z As I watched him and Emmanuelle Riva, I was thinking of medieval palimpsests, those documents in which you see remnants of older writing under the top layer. The Carpetbagger: Michael Haneke Finds His Brando 2012-12-19T17:06:21Z He left evidence of his erased lines as he put down new ones, as if the painting were less a picture than a palimpsest, piled up layers of memory and sensation. Perspective | How Notre Dame inspired Henri Matisse, who depicted the cathedral as a living memory 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z “That was always the challenge — to keep the roughness we encountered on the very first day. You feel the many years this building has been around, all those different layers, like a palimpsest.” Brooklyn’s Batcave Reborn as Gotham’s Art Factory 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Still, the portrait accrues meaning when viewed as a palimpsest. Their Parents Were Holocaust Survivors. That Wasn’t Their Only Secret. 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Lynch would engineer more decisive temporal ruptures in his later films, but Blue Velvet represents his most haunting manipulation of time in cinema, a palimpsest through which multiple eras and genres are visible. “David Lynch should be shot”: Looking back on the madness and chaos of “Blue Velvet” and Ronald Reagan’s ’80s 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Like these other urban fantasists, Moorcock delights in a kind of sublime palimpsest, in imagining an environment that through size, age, scale or complexity exceeds our comprehension, producing fear and awe. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z Its concrete path leading to the river is lined with historical signs, now sun-bleached and obscured by a palimpsest of graffiti tags. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z Our reviewer, Daisy Goodwin, called the novel “a mordant observation of the palimpsest of arrogance and resentment” surrounding Britain’s dealings with its neighbor. New in Paperback: ‘Where Reasons End’ and ‘Why We Can’t Sleep’ 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z This book does ample justice to a network that – overcrowded and overpriced though it may currently be – is "a glorious palimpsest of design". London Underground By Design by Mark Ovenden – review 2013-02-03T08:00:01Z The canvases are palimpsests, piled with layer after layer of acrylic paint and patches of pastel and melded with drawings on paper. Paris: Basquiat show fetes his 50th birthday 2010-10-15T14:57:00Z His work invests a television-video format with alarming complexity: montages and interjections, ghostly palimpsests and these haunting rhythmic visual chants. Blackness, Gayness, Representation: Marlon Riggs Unpacks It All in His Films 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Sometimes this was inflicted on us, sometimes we inflicted it on others, and the twists and turns of these histories are still visible, like a palimpsest, within my name. What’s in my name: tales that cross continents and generations 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Her past there is a palimpsest, with bright recollections of summers back in the motherland as an Americanized teen-ager layered on top of fainter traces from her early childhood in Fuzhou. Ling Ma’s “Severance” Captures the Bleak, Fatalistic Mood of 2018 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Three centuries later they were scraped off the parchment, which was reused — creating a “palimpsest.” Exhibition Review: ?Secrets of Archimedes? at Walters in Baltimore - Review 2011-10-16T23:08:04Z So there was a palimpsest quality to watching “The Kritik,” the ghost of my younger self right there with me to hear the play’s exhilaratingly impassioned, many-layered challenge to critics, delivered with unusual sympathy. In Defense of Candid Reviews, Minus the Nastiness 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Raised as a Baptist, he regarded with fascination the old African beliefs that exist like a palimpsest behind the Christian institutions there. John Edmonds and the Allure of Africa 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z London, where she has lived for two years, is now, she says, "the topmost layer in the palimpsest of my memories", but as soon as she lands in Pakistan, this layer quickly peels away. The Essay ? Karachi Postcards | Radio review 2010-03-19T06:45:00Z There’s a palimpsest of modern-art history in the titanium, limestone, steel, and glass composition. Frank Gehry’s Digital Defiance 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z The layers of scrutiny make the borough a palimpsest. Want the ‘Real’ Brooklyn? Go Cheap 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Another of its pieces, “palimpsest,” by the artist Ann Hamilton, involved snails devouring cabbages. It’s a Banana. It’s Art. And Now It’s the Guggenheim’s Problem. 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z The style was the real story: a palimpsest of poems, prose, G-chats, essays and photographs that invoke the slacker novel, the expat novel, the manic monologues of Thomas Bernhard — infused with a sly stoner charm. Ben Lerner Imagines ‘Different Futures’ in His Novel ‘10:04’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Since many of the armory’s spaces are still undergoing renovation — restored cornices and fixtures alternate with palimpsest patches of half-uncovered original wallpaper — Trusty Sidekick’s artists took advantage of opportunities to suggest characters’ in-between status. Trusty Sidekick Presents Immersive Pieces at Park Ave. Armory 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The resulting palimpsest reflects the contradictions and possibilities of American cinema in the 21st century. Perspective | In a year of Black Death, the movies showed us Black Life 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z If you look at fashion as a whole, you get a palimpsest — layer upon layer of influences. Paying Homage to Japan?s Raw Edges 2010-10-07T00:18:00Z “When you are dealing with a work like ‘Rite,’ it’s a palimpsest,” he said. ‘Can You Rotate That?’ A Hyperkinetic Spin on ‘Rite of Spring’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Moving methodically reel by reel and acknowledging the “many layers of reality,” the director creates a palimpsest of impressions from multiple, meticulously researched sources representing both victims and oppressors. | 'A Film Unfinished': Yael Hersonski Revisits a Nazi Film of the Warsaw Ghetto 2010-08-17T16:43:00Z As inward and serious as Melvyn Tan is outgoing and smiling, Williams communes with the piano as if seeking new layers in a palimpsest. Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues ? review 2011-08-20T23:06:12Z There is nothing half-formed about this palimpsest of a novel, replete with layers of characterization, belief and a search for identity. Justin Cartwright’s ‘Lion Heart’: a tangle of true quests 2014-02-19T20:13:56Z "The thought of showing a constant yesterday – a palimpsest of time, if you like – is a happy one," he reflects. Mark Wallinger sees history repeating 2010-07-09T12:22:00Z The palimpsest effect is protective, as we mentally write over old loves and experiences with new ones so that pains get reduced, replaced and outnumbered. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He was her first love, she was his second guess 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Kelly says it is a privilege to play in a place he calls a palimpsest. A Gilded Age Setting for a Huge Art Show 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z “She’s creating a palimpsest of different eras,” he says, noting that unlike L.A.’s streets, which are the city’s responsibility for upkeep, sidewalks are built and maintained by private developers. Do look down — Fiona Connor is re-creating L.A.'s well-trodden sidewalks as art 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z But Ms. Rolikova, the innkeeper, thought it was important to see it, and so she opened the padlocked door to reveal a palimpsest of Russia over the past century. Putin’s Forever War 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z “I’ve become the type of person,” he says, “who…doesn’t actually get all that annoyed when people talk about psychogeography and palimpsests when all they really mean is that they walked around for a bit.” A debut novel's funny Valentine to love in all its icky absurdity 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Subsequent impact events can heat up parts of a rock, glazing it with fields from later times and creating a magnetic palimpsest. Mars had long-lived magnetic field, extending chances for life 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z The Michigan artist’s paintings can resemble palimpsests, reused documents that reveal multiple levels of text or imagery, or explicitly evoke partly erased blackboards. Review | In the galleries: Rendering art through light and space 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z But the codex is a palimpsest: parchment that was scraped clean of older text by the scribe so that it could be reused. First Known Map of Night Sky Found Hidden in Medieval Parchment 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Beautiful views — sometimes the very ones Monet had painted — were projected inside the tent onto nondescript gravel paths or rocky beaches, creating a new, richly layered patina, a palimpsest. Van Gogh through a pinhole There is a sort of palimpsest of thinking, reading: The ideas have been churning in the writer for years, but the agony of that work is nowhere to be found. Review: The follow-up to Namwali Serpell's debut novel is less grand — and better for it 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z It’s an approach that acknowledges the art form as a palimpsest: a text that has been revised and overwritten for thousands of years. The Times’s Theater Critic Reviews Stratford’s New Theater 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z Looking out on the construction site where the twin towers once stood, he contemplates the many communities that dwelled there previously, deeming the area “a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.” The 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z It is also possible that additional pages from the star catalogue survive in the St Catherine’s library, which contains more than 160 palimpsests. First Known Map of Night Sky Found Hidden in Medieval Parchment 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s a typical L.A. palimpsest — one history layered over traces of another — and the earlier one is worth knowing. Op-Ed: My grandmother opened a restaurant in Echo Park in 1951. The rest is history 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Such a page is known as a palimpsest. A surviving signpost to Belltown’s origins soon will fall 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z She chose California Grill, a Salvadoran restaurant whose marquee is a palimpsest of past incarnations as an American and Mexican diner. Column: For $5 a month, three East Hollywood residents want to change L.A. journalism 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z “The Lehman Trilogy” is a theatrical palimpsest, in which the past is always visibly lurking under the ever-changing present. Review: A stunningly staged 'Lehman Trilogy’ critiques and romanticizes American capitalism 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Beyond that, multispectral imaging of palimpsests is opening a rich new seam of ancient texts in archives around the world. First Known Map of Night Sky Found Hidden in Medieval Parchment 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Every place she goes is a palimpsest; everywhere she looks, ghosts. Review: For expats during COVID, what does home even mean? A new memoir sheds light 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Those campaigns are political palimpsests, the scrawl of Trump still discernible beneath the tidier writing that candidates have done over it. Opinion | There’s a New Wizard of Oz. It’s Donald Trump. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Ultimately, the production has the effect of a palimpsest, where forgotten layers of Los Angeles keep peeking through. Review: Culture Clash revives its visually haunting 'Chavez Ravine' for the digital stage 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z “Rosia Montana is a landscape of great cultural importance — a palimpsest of mining activity from Roman times through the Austro-Hungarian period to the Communist era,” Wilson said. Romania’s Roman gold mines get UNESCO heritage status 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z “In Europe alone, there are literally thousands of palimpsests in major libraries,” says Gysembergh. First Known Map of Night Sky Found Hidden in Medieval Parchment 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z While reading the July 2 Weekend film review “A great music documentary and an exhilarating time capsule,” I saw the word “palimpsest.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: The atrocities in Tigray are horrific 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z But Thompson cleverly interweaves present-day interviews into the archival images, creating an illuminating palimpsest of equally moving and eerily timely narratives. Review | ‘Summer of Soul’ is not just a great music documentary but an exhilarating time capsule 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z There’s a gap between the performers and their roles that creates almost a palimpsest effect, keeping 1965 and 2021 simultaneously in view. Theater gets its weird back. How REDCAT and CAP UCLA shows celebrate the offbeat 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z She compares the new study to efforts using x-rays to view the original, worn-away text on recycled documents called palimpsests or to see an early version of a painting hidden under layers of oils. Algorithm Virtually Unfolds a Historical Letter without Unsealing It 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z In some ways, that “palimpsest” could describe the park itself — protest and resistance have crisscrossed that land for a long time. The lesser-known history of Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z The traces of old marks may remain, but it is much easier to draw new habits over the top of them like a palimpsest. Most brain activity is "background noise" — and that's upending our understanding of consciousness 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z Today, many of the cave walls are now palimpsests, with medieval warriors covering Chalcolithic art on top of even older Mesolithic drawings. A Natural Work of Art May Be Hiding Among Indian Cave Masterpieces 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Such a notion suggests that any nation is a palimpsest, one whose history can be rewritten, again and again. Rethinking Who and What Get Memorialized 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Every city is a palimpsest, the new put down over the old, just as the old was put down over the even older. Perspective | What lies beneath: Unearthing the history of Walter Pierce Park 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z What remains is a palimpsest of culture and history, as layered as a cross section of the earth itself. Who Was Carlo Scarpa? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z It’s a reminder that history doesn’t belong to any single group of people, and nor is it static; it is a palimpsest, and all of us its authors. T’s Holiday Issue: Past Perfect 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s a palimpsest of people, places, and changing attitudes, all colliding in real time. How the Hmong diaspora uses the world’s most boring technology to make something weird and wonderful 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z The starting point for this slim, compelling book is the claim that “nature and landscape are palimpsests of history and social violence more than they are respites from these things.” Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Georgetown is a good place to glimpse such palimpsests, which include the cobbles and streetcar tracks on O and P streets. Whatever happened to Fayette Street in Georgetown - The Washington Post 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z The flavor is weak, a palimpsest of the fiery, cheesy goodness it’s mimicking. The official spicy snack power rankings 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Tug hard enough on any story and you will find it connected to another story, and then another, ad infinitum, across the palimpsest of the world. A Twenty-Four-Thousand-Mile Walk Across Human History 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Work groups are established to add fresh layers to the catacomb palimpsest: large graffiti murals, new carvings, a sword buried in a stone, or mosaic works involving thousands of tiles. The Invisible City Beneath Paris 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The museum describes the image as "a kind of palimpsest for all of Leonardo's future output". Da Vinci 500 years on: Sketch of a genius 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Scarred repeatedly, it is a kind of palimpsest of French history. A France in Turmoil Weeps for a Symbol of Paris’s Enduring Identity 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The piece is a palimpsest of movie-set architecture: fragments from the ultimate imagined space. When a wall is more than a wall: Cayetano Ferrer and the fabrication of history 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z So Blight’s biography, particularly in its early pages, is necessarily a kind of palimpsest: he dives back and forth beneath Douglass’s texts, sifting and sorting and weaving. The Prophetic Pragmatism of Frederick Douglass 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z “As a historian, I love the idea that you have all these different statues from different eras that represent changing value systems – a palimpsest that enriches the urban landscape,” she tells me. Statue wars: what should we do with troublesome monuments? 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z At least 170 of the 4,500 manuscripts in the collection are recycled manuscripts, known as palimpsests. Hidden writing in ancient manuscripts 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The production might be described as a theatrical palimpsest revealing the distinctive sensibilities of theatrical pioneers separated by language, culture and history yet united by a commitment to radical originality. With 'A Pink Chair,' Wooster Group conjures from spirits from theater's past 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Our area is a palimpsest, the new covering the old, only to be covered in its own time. Perspective | Gassing up the time machine for another drive down Rockville Pike 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z The signature of an auteur is more like a faint palimpsest visible underneath a film’s action, editing, mise en scène, etc., as opposed to a bold, conspicuous graffiti tag. What does the director switch on “Justice League” mean for the auteur theory? 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z As a result, the original content of many palimpsest parchments were erased or written over to allow for a new manuscript to be written. Text by 'Father of Medicine' Found in Remote Egyptian Monastery 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z In the 1890s, Margaret and Agnes Lewis, twins from Scotland, discovered a palimpsest after travelling nine days through the desert on camel to Sinai. Hidden writing in ancient manuscripts 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Each extension is a modification, each another layer of the palimpsest. Translation – and migration – is the lifeblood of culture | George Szirtes 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z The city was a palimpsest of his achievements: its schools for the poor, its magnificent parks, its grand civic buildings, its whirring workshops and clanking factories full of confident, well-fed workers. The sage of Birmingham 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z In this sense, the drawings are palimpsests depicting the action of battle. Rats on Main Street? Don’t Scream, They’re Art 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Some 130 known palimpsests sit in St. Catherine's Monastery, and the content of the erased writing that lies below the visible text is largely unknown for many of the documents. Text by 'Father of Medicine' Found in Remote Egyptian Monastery 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z The corner store, with its faded graffiti lines, finally whitewashed, nearly expunged, doubtless like its author save for his palimpsest … A Literary House Keeps the Village Spirit Alive 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The annotation does not erase the local: the palimpsest extends it. Translation – and migration – is the lifeblood of culture | George Szirtes 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z “The darkness turned London into a palimpsest,” Paul reflects: How Should Artists Respond to War? 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z While most readers will not notice every edit, each article is a palimpsest of added or deleted nuggets, often several in a single day, which are archived under the “view history” tab. On Wikipedia, Donald Trump Reigns and Facts Are Open to Debate 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z “You find so many things under layers and layers of chalk paint—it’s like a palimpsest,” Tsigarida says of the painstaking work. Greek Revival: How One Architect Is Refurbishing 15th-19th Century Homes 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The palimpsest was probably made in Jerusalem, in the thirteenth century. The Quest to Unlock an Ancient Library 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z "These hints gather on the collection's clothes to form eclectic palimpsests rich with heterogeneous references," the designer's notes read. Kaleidoscope of colors, motifs at Gucci womenswear show 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Using cutting-edge technologies, we can now scan ancient documents to read the palimpsest writings. Not just Nefertiti – there are plenty of influential women in history. If you look for them… | Bettany Hughes 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Sometimes he embeds lengths of string or caulking to form linear elements in the palimpsest. What Can Art Fix? 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Rereading it “the other way round” is how one might imagine looking at a familiar picture but through the intelligence of someone else, or seeing a palimpsest suddenly and impossibly become the primary image. Baileys prize winner Ali Smith: ‘We’ve always been up against the canon and the canon is traditionally male. That is what this book is about’ 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The manuscript held by Dr. Kessel that day was a palimpsest: older text covered up by newer writing. Medicine’s Hidden Roots in an Ancient Manuscript 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Because of Matera’s narrow confines, rebuilding has been constant, making the city a palimpsest in stone. A Cave with a View 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Far from the height of machine-like perfection, the genome is largely a palimpsest of worthless instructions, a den of harmless parasites. Is Most of Our DNA Garbage? 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z And on I walked, searching for a palimpsest of the past, writ in brick, stone or other. The Urbanologist calls South Lake Union ‘soulless’ 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z “You get this kind of palimpsest of different communities,” Adler says. Is the Cassette Renaissance For Real? A trained eye sees only the faint palimpsest of the war beneath layers of urbanization, expansion, suburbanization and all the lacquer that an affluent and busy society slathers on the past. D.C.’s darkest day, a war that no one remembers The city is a palimpsest, its old history overwritten daily by new history. Struck by illness, two D.C. musicians get help from their peers this weekend Lawrence's highly detailed instructions somehow melt away and become a palimpsest through which we see - or are directed to - the formative places of our own early lives. Essays: In Praise of the Midlands 2014-04-21T00:21:22Z Spencer Wells explained: "When you look at today's populations, what you are seeing is a hazy palimpsest of what actually went on to create present-day patterns." European origins laid bare by DNA 2013-10-10T22:23:42Z Which, in such cases—the act or the utterance, the gesture or the text—is the palimpsest of other? Why Contemporary Art Matters Now 2013-06-16T08:45:00Z It would be easy to rail against the club for discarding all that history and tradition, which underlays every match played at the ground like a palimpsest. The Spin 2013-05-07T14:32:00Z Begun more than 20 years earlier, and titled “Misères,” Hugo’s novel became over time a palimpsest for his sharpening social and political concerns. Op-Ed Contributor: Victor Hugo on the Ballot 2012-04-19T12:27:18Z There is, too, a massive rood screen, and a curious "palimpsest" Table of Commandments, the original sixteenth century lettering showing beneath repainted characters of the seventeenth century. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z "He's a palimpsest," she said to herself, "and a poor palimpsest at that." The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z Sculptured with signs and meanings unconfessed, Its lordly fanes and palaces attest A past before whose wall of darkness fail Reason and fancy, finding not the tale Erased by time from history's palimpsest. The Star-Treader and other poems 2011-12-27T03:00:09.977Z These palimpsests had originally belonged to the famous convent of St Columba at Bobbio, and had been written over by the monks with the acts of the first council of Chalcedon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z When the palimpsest reemerged, says Will Noel, who is its curator, “it was in appalling condition.” A Tale of Math Treasure 2011-10-07T12:45:00.227Z So intensive was the grime that the original dark hue of their skins offered no camouflage to the anthracite palimpsest which overlaid it. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z As the two voices did not perfectly coincide, the result was a sort of palimpsest of sound, with, as sometimes happens in palimpsests, the old and almost erased message the more significant one. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Cardinal Angelo Mai, as principal Vatican librarian, distinguished himself by his palimpsest studies in old classical as well as patristic literature. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z The letters, together with the other fragments in the palimpsest, were published at Rome in 1823. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Netz is now transcribing the texts contained in the palimpsest, which he estimates at about 50,000 words, most written in a shorthand typical of medieval copyists. A Tale of Math Treasure 2011-10-07T12:45:00.227Z The parchment, known as a palimpsest, contains the only known copies of some of Archimedes’ works. Long-hidden writings of Greek mathematician Archimedes to go on display in Baltimore 2011-09-13T12:01:19Z The greater part of the palimpsest has, however, been deciphered and the text is now fairly complete. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Indeed it indicated that the memorial was a palimpsest—a pre-Christian pillar-stone transformed at a later age to its present significance. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z Like many other in the same collection, it is a palimpsest. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z It is common for scholars, taking what they call a palimpsest, an ancient manuscript and applying chemical process to so renovate it as to enable them to plainly read it. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z C, where the testimony of that precious palimpsest can be had. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z Of less account are palimpsest pieces of the eleventh century on some of the leaves, containing Matt. xi. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z Scenes of the past may shine through it like ink renewed in the dimmed lines of a palimpsest through later records, but this night stands supreme as if it were the sum of all. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z It is true that in certain lights a reader may perceive that he is examining a palimpsest, and wonder what manner of writer he was whose writing is obliterated. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Upon this very spot, which thus becomes a palimpsest, one life over-writing another, he awakens a romantic interest which gives it an endless fascination. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z Codices Ambrosiani, or palimpsest fragments of five manuscripts, apparently like Cod. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z One rough breathing is just visible in that early palimpsest of St. John's Gospel, Ib or Nb. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z Luckily for New Yorkers with a taste for past lives, many of these dwellings function as palimpsests of the city’s history. Message From a Stranger 2011-04-08T17:39:24Z In the palimpsest, these sophisms, which have been revived in modern times by Mandeville and others, are interrupted by frequent chasms in the MS. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z In comparison with the relative simplicity of the archaeological record on the Pacific coast, that of the eastern portion of the continent is complex, and might indeed be best described as a palimpsest. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Dempster was forgotten: the stronger impression, that produced by Lee, came out through the more recent one like the original writing on a palimpsest. A Practical Novelist 2011-02-19T03:01:38.957Z Laudianus E of the Acts and Cureton's palimpsest Homer too the loop is very decided, the Greek and Latin a in Laud. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z But the scattered details of comparative anatomy are capable of manifold arrangement, while the palimpsest of individual development is not merely fragmentary, but often has the fragments misplaced. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z Of the fourth book only one leaf remains in the palimpsest, the contents of which seem to confirm what we learn from other sources, that it treated of Education and Morals. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z A large number of brasses in England are palimpsests, the back of an ancient brass having been engraved for the more recent memorial. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" This was done for economy's sake, when writing material was costly, and parchments thus treated are known as palimpsests. The Story of Books D. 13, the uncial eighth century palimpsest of the Gospels we have designated as Υ, contains Lessons from the Gospels, written by Ignatius, Metropolitan of Selymbria in Thrace, being the February portion of a Menaeum. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z They age in character and physique, and after the reconnoitre there is a pathetic consciousness of the grudging confessions which time has inscribed on the monumental palimpsest. Love's Usuries The application of this explanation to the phenomenon of the two suns is lost, as a hiatus of eight pages here occurs in the palimpsest. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z He is a spare, rather cadaverous man, who lives among Egyptian mummies and Assyrian tablets and palimpsests and first editions, and knows nothing of any statesman later than Cardinal Wolsey. Windyridge The rest has been lost on the way, turned into palimpsests, or burned in Byzance. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern I say it would have been very pleasant to have found this in some palimpsest, but if it is in the palimpsest, it has not yet been found. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas stories It is something deeper than the tabulated five senses, a sixth sense—a sense of feel, without contact—a sense on which the whole sensate world writes its records as on a palimpsest. The Story of the Trapper Isabel, still feeling like a palimpsest, lingered for an hour looking at these refugees. Ancestors A Novel A palimpsest containing fragments of various orations was recently destroyed by the fire at the Turin library. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" I suggest that the letter should be referred to some specialist in palimpsests, who may be able to detect some of the underlying original, which is absolutely invisible to me. When Ghost Meets Ghost A manuscript thus treated is called a palimpsest. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 Which element he considered the more dangerous is not on the palimpsest that records the story of these days. The Brownings Their Life and Art He had corrected the palimpsest and recalled her as the Miss Webling whom he had met in London. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards The oldest evidence now existing for any works of Cicero is to be found in palimpsests written in the 4th or 5th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Yet, even for the wildest or bravest rebel, that manuscript is only a palimpsest. Five Stages of Greek Religion In this way a considerable number of extremely valuable texts which would otherwise have been entirely lost have been recovered from palimpsests. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 M. Goltz, the Austrian Minister, was an acquaintance whom the Brownings found “witty and agreeable,” and Mrs. Browning called the city “a palimpsest Rome,” with its records written all over the antique. The Brownings Their Life and Art His soul must be like a palimpsest with the record of nation on nation. Dreamers of the Ghetto For consider, what would become of it, if a necropolis, for instance, did not yield somewhat of nourishment,––a limb, a torso, a palimpsest, or even an earthen lamp, a potsherd, or a coin? The Book of Khalid In addition to these, much that has come to us has been extracted, as it were unwillingly, from palimpsests, and is, from that and from other causes, fragmentary. The Life of Cicero Volume II. In that year Mai published at Rome, from a Vatican palimpsest, remains which make up about one-third of the whole. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors But experts in palimpsests, if they had penetrated the superscriptions in chalk and pencil of idle authorship, would have found that it was The Retreat. Somehow Good The gospels are at Upsala; the epistles were found at Wolfenbuttel; while a portion of the Acts of the Apostles and of the Old Testament were extracted from the palimpsests. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge On the veil of the eternal mystery are palimpsests of which every race has deciphered a consonant. The Book of Khalid I conjecture that there is no important palimpsest whose upper writing is later than the eleventh century. The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. The little building stands apart in the churchyard; you may peep through a grille at the tombs and the pedigree of sixteen generations of Lumleys, and at a palimpsest brass mounted on a screen. Highways and Byways in Surrey Always this turning to the far past, this delving in rosetta stones and palimpsests, this preoccupation with the sights and sins of the ancient gods and kings. The Merry-Go-Round The heavenly messenger read beneath the outward passing incident, and saw under the clumsy letters of the palimpsest the deep and holy characters which were awaiting the moment of complete discovery. John the Baptist The porphyry pillars, the statues, the tablets, the exquisite friezes, the palimpsests, the bas-reliefs,––Time and the Turks have spared a few of these. The Book of Khalid A larger, but still small, group of books of "classical" date are the palimpsests, the most famous of which are at Milan and Rome. The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. From now on there was no confusion of zones, no concessions, no mental palimpsest of resolving images. Edge of the Jungle Hood left them to look for hieroglyphics on a barn which he said was a veritable palimpsest of cryptic notations of roving thieves. The Madness of May A palimpsest, then, is a membrane or roll cleansed of its manuscript by reiterated successions. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 You ought to be able to decipher that palimpsest, if anyone can, for it was you who taught them to write; Ortigia would never have seen them if it had not been for you. Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions At first they were apt to be made into palimpsests; but when good new parchment became abundant and comparatively cheap, this practice was dropped. The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. Towards the end there had been so much mystery, and the story had become such a palimpsest of forged signatures, that I myself knew no more than Lord Annerslie in which to believe. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914 But the talkative worry one's ears to death with their tautologies, as people scribble the same things over and over again on palimpsests.557 § vi. Plutarch's Morals Now, out of that original scarcity affecting all materials proper for durable books, which continued up to times comparatively modern, grew the opening for palimpsests. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Particularly in eastern States this page is a palimpsest. The Frontier in American History Perhaps future students of hieroglyphics may yet discover in some palimpsest that in old days the Egyptian maidens had quaint iron machines that carried them swiftly through the desert. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient My eyes, however, soon became initiated to the new experience, and able to read the lines of this curious palimpsest. Pagan and Christian Rome An obliterated manuscript written over again is called a palimpsest, and the man who can restore and read it a paleographist. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author What else than a natural and mighty palimpsest is the human brain? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 And as he climbed that pitiless treadmill, on each man's face there could be deciphered the palimpsest of his soul. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance But in the year 1822, Monsignor Mai, librarian of the Vatican, published considerable portions of the first and second books, from a palimpsest manuscript of St. Austin's Commentary on the Psalms. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity She longed to penetrate below the surface and decipher the strange palimpsest of human life. The Daughters of Danaus At once he rises, glaring coldly at the Crerar palimpsest on the wall. The Masques of Ottawa Such a palimpsest is my brain; such a palimpsest, O reader! is yours. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Would that it might even yet be found in the library of some monastery, or lurking as a palimpsest under the dull commentary of some mediæval divine! Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation His books are no palimpsest, 'the prophet's holograph, defiled, erased, and covered by a monk's.' Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson The heart of a woman is no undecipherable palimpsest for the successive register of fleeting impressions. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee The whole universe may be a palimpsest preserving the inscriptions of all deeds, and every soul may be a reagent gifted with the power to recover and read its own. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life This shows that naturally, and without violent agencies, the human brain is by tendency a palimpsest. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 It is, indeed, a veritable palimpsest, overlaid with tender and gracious recollections out of which the original thought gains a new and subtle sweetness. Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse The mighty West Poured out her untold money To gaze upon my palimpsest; I think that Codex A was best, But parts of this have been suppressed; Publishers are so funny. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 He used Herwerden's new collation of the Vatican palimpsest containing Excerpts Concerning Judgments. Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form This country is a palimpsest, in which the Bible is written over Herodotus, and the Koran over that. Letters from Egypt ‘Some institution,’ that was suspicious—MSS.—they meant forgery. p. 52The new treasure was described as a palimpsest, consisting of fifty or sixty leaves of papyrus. Masques & Phases Such manuscripts are called palimpsests—written again after erasure. Companion to the Bible Its proper place is at the end of the oldest series of uncial manuscripts, which begins with the Cicero palimpsest. A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York It's a palimpsest Rome—a watering-place written over the antique—and I haven't taken to it as a poet should, I suppose; only let us speak the truth, above all things. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II In this way the Codex may be called a kind of palimpsest, in which we have some portions of the original manuscript, and the rest overlaid with the later revision. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood The palimpsest MS. examined by Dr. Barrett is in uncial characters, and is referred by him to the 6th or 7th century. The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three That youthful miss in torpidity over that palimpsest of filth is what the Free Library has to show as the justification of its existence. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 The Pliny palimpsest of St. Paul in Carinthia agrees with our manuscript in using rustic capitals. A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York The exact images may not be recorded, but the effect produced by their passing will remain and become part of the palimpsest of life and character. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality Many of these still remain even after the national purgation of 1870, just as the Christian inscriptions survive in the marble palimpsests of Mahometan mosques, converted from basilicas, at Damascus or Constantinople. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji He found a new Raymond, yet as the older writing of a parchment palimpsest will sometimes make itself apparent behind the new, glimpses of his earlier self did not lack. The Spinners That there may be some contradictions in our interpretations I admit, but still the palimpsest can be deciphered. The Cathedral In this respect, too, the Pliny palimpsest of St. Paul in Carinthia agrees with our fragment. A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York Hence arose the making of palimpsest brasses, the carvers using an old brass and on the reverse side cutting a memorial of a more recently deceased person. Vanishing England This manuscript is of the sixth century, and, together with some palimpsests, is the only source of our knowledge of this ancient version333. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology It is, as it were, a sort of palimpsest; the writing on the top all may read, the writing below the student alone can decipher. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Besides, Many a heart is hard to read—especially if it is a palimpsest. Hints for Lovers You're nothing but a palimpsest, the record of a single age. Through stained glass When the latter method was used, the writing as in palimpsests can be made to reappear by warming. Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds Very ingenious," said he—"a sort of artificial palimpsest, in fact. John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman England just now is a palimpsest--the new writing everywhere on top of the old. Lady Merton, Colonist Features of this latter sort "dislimn" and yield, as the writing on palimpsests, to the regal majesty of the divine countenance, which none can look upon and smile. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 But none of them ever dared call me a palimpsest. Through stained glass I read everywhere mysterious cyphers and hieroglyphics; every changing season offers to me a new palimpsest. In the Footprints of the Padres Hence each page of history is a palimpsest. Civics: as Applied Sociology The accents of thy pure and sovereign tongue, Are they not ever goldenly impressed On memory's palimpsest? The Poems of William Watson This made it comparatively easy to sponge out what was written, and to use the same roll over again—as a "palimpsest"—for some work more desired. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul Rome, for a time, was darkened with grief and anxiety; nor did the city itself impress her as she had expected: "It's a palimpsest Rome," she writes, "a watering-place written over the antique." Robert Browning Forgetfulness is nothing but a palimpsest: an incident happens unexpectedly, and all that was effaced revives in the blanks of wondering memory. The Man Who Laughs "RAHERE" will find an account and references to numerous examples of palimpsest brasses, to which class the one in question belongs. Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850 Thus it is that the young man's heart is like the precious palimpsest of old. In the Days of My Youth The very lost races are a palimpsest to be deciphered by a seeing eye. Bushido, the Soul of Japan A half-rolled palimpsest lay in the centre, and around it were many quaint articles of bric-a-brac. Tales of Terror and Mystery Tracing this wild changing channel-gorge, gully, or canyon, the sections will show Mount Shasta as a huge palimpsest, containing the records, layer upon layer, of strangely contrasted events in its fiery-icy history. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon He examined without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a palimpsest, that portion of chaos which still exists in nature. Les Misérables Historically speaking, therefore, the annexed provinces present a strangely complex patchwork and oft-repeated palimpsest, civilization after civilization overlapping each other. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" The borders of this pool were a fascinating palimpsest: the tracks of many sorts of beast had been impressed there in the mud. The Leopard Woman And it is true not of England only; for the various lands of Europe are written over like palimpsests with the story of successive conquests and dominations chronicled in their local names. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 We do not wish to deny that erroneous historical interpretation produces at times what we may term palimpsests, new expressions imposed upon the antique, artistic imaginings instead of historical reproductions. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Large fragments were recovered early in the present century from a palimpsest, itself incomplete, on which the work of Cicero had been expunged to make room for the commentary of St. Augustine on the Psalms. Latin Literature For thirty years I had forgotten all this; but the "By Gum!" of Colonel Lackaday wiped out the superscription over the palimpsest of memory and revealed in startling clearness all these impressions of the past. The Mountebank Our lives and characters may become a palimpsest. Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI In 1816, however, Niebuhr discovered a palimpsest MS., in which the epistles of St. Jerome were written over the erased "Institutes" of Gaius. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities In this way the brain of man has become a kind of palimpsest upon which, and over the writings of Nature, superstition has scribbled her countless lies. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. The Christian monuments are not older than the fifth century, but many have been proved palimpsests and rise on pagan foundations dating from a time far more ancient than their own. Lying Prophets The work was supposed to be irrecoverably lost, with the exception of this Dream of Scipio and a few fragments, but considerable portions of it were discovered in a palimpsest in 1822. De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream Secondly, it is a good example of what I call the pious palimpsest. Old Calabria What is human life but a never-ending palimpsest? Alone I scanned a leaf particularly and saw that it was a palimpsest. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 1. He himself describes the MS. as a palimpsest, deliberately defaced by Michael Angelo, from which the words originally written have to be recovered in many cases by a process of conjecture. Sonnets With her palimpsest mind she was a poet for the moment, not a woman. Sleeping Fires: a Novel Within that rocky scroll, her palimpsest, The hand of time still writes, and still effaces Records in dolomite—and shale—and schist, The pre-historic history of Races. The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems All this Robert Falconer saw slowly revive on the palimpsest of his memory, as he washed it with the vivifying waters of recollection. Robert Falconer Most old towns are like palimpsests, parchments which have been scrawled over again and again by their successive owners. Oxford He regarded memory but as a sort of palimpsest; and he was patiently waiting until his own name should appear again, when the other's should have been sufficiently obliterated. Other Things Being Equal As soon as she was safe from observation, Asie unwrapped the papers with the care of a savant unrolling a palimpsest. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Manuscripts so treated are now known as palimpsests. Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. She sleeps—PRISCILLA sleeps—and down the palimpsest of age-old passion the lyres of night breathe forth their poignant praise. A Parody Outline of History He is, and always has been, a sheath of varied and even incompatible possibilities, a palimpsest of inherited dispositions. The World Set Free His mirror of vision was silver-clear, a flashing, dazzling palimpsest of imagery. Martin Eden On the other hand, yellow prussiate of potash, with acetic acid in successive operations is of great service in treating the most perplexing palimpsests. Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. All the large European public libraries have copies of palimpsests, which are melancholy illustrations of the literary tastes of many writers or bookmakers during the Middle Ages. Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. |
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