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palimpsest
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palimpsest (păl`ĭmpsĕst'): see manuscript manuscript, a handwritten work as distinguished from printing. The oldest manuscripts, those found in Egyptian tombs, were written on papyrus; the earliest dates from c.3500 B.C.
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palimpsest [pə′lim·səst]
(geology)
Referring to a kind of drainage in which a modern, anomalous drainage pattern is superimposed upon an older one, clearly indicating different topographic and possibly structural conditions at the time of development.
In sedimentology, autochthonous sediment deposits which exhibit some of the attributes of the source sediment.
(petrology)
Of a metamorphic rock, having remnants of the original structure or texture preserved.


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The postcolonial must peel off these three palimpsestic skins in order for woman to be released from imperial bondage and restored to individuation within history.
In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud suggested that Rome, with all its palimpsestic layering, was a metaphor for the human psyche.
To be sure, our bodies shift, change and "lengthen" in puberty, in illness, and in body modification of varying forms and levels of voluntarity, but the experiences, fragmentary as they may be, do in fact exist in relation to each other at all times, and this palimpsestic experience implicates both mind and body.
 
 
 
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