If you are writing fast and hastily erase something not quite all the way and continue writing right over the smudgy bit, then you’ve created a palimpsest which means you can see traces of the earlier writing mixed in with the new.
A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second.
Noun
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
n.
A parchment which has been written upon twice, the
first writing having been erased to make place for the second.
Palimpsest
A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second.
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Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
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