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  • A palimsest — a ghostly smudge — remained, however, as a reminder that the phenomenon had once come to life, that it had indeed existed — vital, wild and animated — that there was something more to find and to see beneath the authorized story.

    Weather Underground Redux 2006

  • A palimsest — a ghostly smudge — remained, however, as a reminder that the phenomenon had once come to life, that it had indeed existed — vital, wild and animated — that there was something more to find and to see beneath the authorized story.

    April « 2006 « Bill Ayers 2006

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