PALIMPSEST

Vikki

Posted: 30 June 2008 04:33 PM

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Discuss palimpsest here.

“Out of that original scarcity affecting all materials proper for durable books, which continued up to times comparatively modern, grew the opening for palimpsests.” - De Quincey “Opium-Eater, Suspiria” p. 227

Palimpsest can also be a monumental brass, burned and re-engraved on the reverse side.

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Classic Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
Archimedes Palimpsest

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LukeJavan8

Posted: 02 July 2008 10:41 AM

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WOTD is very palimsestic at times, no?

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douglang

Posted: 02 July 2008 02:22 PM

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Being hung about with brassy GOGs, you’d expect it to be !

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LukeJavan8

Posted: 02 July 2008 03:10 PM

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I wonder how our brassy, sassy, classy GOG is doing?

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