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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of palimpsest.
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“But first: if this Biblical story is the palimpsested underlyer of Kings, how specifically is that tale rendered strange-fictional?”
“In the other, the seams are so loosely stitched that they become the very point of the narrative, usually when the protagonist realises their existence; the realm is so open to other realms, so crosshatched and palimpsested, that there is no need of portals or rifts; the overlap is so pervasive that the realm may only truly be understandable as a "patch" within a vast "quilting" of multiversal reality.”
“The West is still there in America, we are being told, if only as a palimpsested myth”
“There is, for me, in that book, a sense of life itself as a great endeavour, all the wonder of the myth it takes as framework superimposed upon, or palimpsested by, the real-world story of one day in Dublin.”
“Then we get the turn, a revelation of what exactly it is that has palimpsested the Western -- Crime, not just as a reality but as a genre.”
“That's partly why I'm interested in combinations of strict translation and free adaptation, because I think we actually have layer upon layer of projected meaning which is more interesting than any original "insight", long-since palimpsested by time.”
“A Franciscan Common of the Saints of 155 folios from Rimini, written 1328 and palimpsested on 40 folios with new texts and altered melodies sometime after 1582.”
“The angry-god = volcano-explodes = we-suffer simplistic answers of animism are discernable in the texts, but they're palimpsested by the Big New Idea that the divine is * not* the world, not * of* the world.”
“You never get three unique palimpsested texts from the ancient world together in one book," he told the BBC News website.”
Understanding the Holy Ground that Archimedes Walked On | Impact Lab
“Dig down and we might find the graves of gods under our feet, the bones of giants, their more primal realities palimpsested by our own, as a faded text upon a reused scrap of parchment -- the Vellum.”
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