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  • verb Present participle of palimpsest.

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Examples

  • But the palimpsesting of biblical and contemporary cultures is also deeply dissonant, deeply estranging.

    Kings Hal Duncan 2009

  • But the palimpsesting of biblical and contemporary cultures is also deeply dissonant, deeply estranging.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • And with my interests lying in the direction of fucked-up narratives, stories told in the seams of realms defined more by crosshatching and palimpsesting than anything else, I'm clearly going to look at that as a form in its own right.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • In one, the seams are sealed so tight that they are imperceptible; the realm is a closed system, without portals or rifts; it has no contact with any other realms; there is no crosshatching between alternative (i.e. temporal) elsewhens or palimpsesting of alterior (i.e. nomological) elsewhens; everything takes place within that realm.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • This palimpsesting of genres is something that will play out through the movie and is, I'd argue, a core theme.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • In one, the seams are sealed so tight that they are imperceptible; the realm is a closed system, without portals or rifts; it has no contact with any other realms; there is no crosshatching between alternative (i.e. temporal) elsewhens or palimpsesting of alterior (i.e. nomological) elsewhens; everything takes place within that realm.

    Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008

  • This palimpsesting of genres is something that will play out through the movie and is, I'd argue, a core theme.

    Freeform Critique Hal Duncan 2008

  • And with my interests lying in the direction of fucked-up narratives, stories told in the seams of realms defined more by crosshatching and palimpsesting than anything else, I'm clearly going to look at that as a form in its own right.

    Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008

  • The former is a text that has survived, at least in parts, through a series of processes that includes palimpsesting, thievery, obscurantism, acquisition, and conservation.

    THE METHOD by SASHA STEENSEN EILEEN 2009

  • Needless to say this stalled completely, but other Joycean elements have replaced that, like the thematic structuring of the four volumes around seasons and times of day, the palimpsesting of ancient myths under the historic or fantastic narratives.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Hal Duncan 2006

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