User:Trashpuppy/Palimpsest

A PALIMPSEST is a surface used for repeated writing. The writing is erased when it has outlived its usefulness. The support, the manuscript page itself, has not outlived its usefulness as it is laboursome to create. While you can certainly clean the palimpsest, the old writing is never fully erased. While the current writing is legible, over time different earlier writings compete to come back to the surface of the palimpsest . The past writings still inform the makeup of the palimpsest.