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His performance is a palimpsest in which you see all the layers of a single life.
However, there is little evidence of formation of palimpsests through viscoelastic crustal relaxation, unlike on other large icy moons.
In this one recognises that all culture is contingent, and that the place of criticism on what constitutes a larger map is part of the palimpsest of markings and erasures.
The head is a palimpsest.
Because the new reasoning and the old language often appeared simultaneously, every zoning decision was a palimpsest of sorts.
Culture is a palimpsest, and can only be read as such.
The metaphorical palimpsest of pagan defences is pushed up, beyond the gate/fence episode, against the spirits of the forest.
Once again the novel repeatedly turns inwards to examine its own nature, presenting itself as a kind of palimpsest.
What we have is a palimpsest of looks and gazes sometimes taken from context, at other times set among material facts that blunt hermeneutic tools.
