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Word 229: Palimpsest  

Seen in this light, my kitchen is a technological palimpsest.

palimpsest (n) : a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible – New Yorker: What Else is New?

30.07.2007 klo 08:19

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