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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain

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palimpsest



a kind of palimpsestic plagiarism that moves through bodies and time, a collective song with no single origin, or whose origin has been erased

—p.114 by Ben Lerner
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it becomes a palimpsest of literary-historical-stlistic sources and allusions

—p.158 Dead Letters (157) by George Steiner
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7 years, 10 months ago


it’s been configured and reconfigured over the years since into a drywall palimpsest

—p.4 by Thomas Pynchon
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4 years, 9 months ago


the palimpsest of cultural meanings that preoccupy the way we imagine housing and security.

—p.128 Play: Coming of Age in the Speculative Pokéconomy (102) by Max Haiven
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6 years, 2 months ago


a palimpsest compositional history of the fiction

—p.4 Introduction (1) by David Hering
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8 years ago


for Benjamin, the act of remembrance through writing had a palimpsest, dialectical character that raced backwards and forwards in time

—p.28 Part I: 1900-1920 (13) by Stuart Jeffries
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7 years, 7 months ago


the original song lives on in the parody like a palimpsest, the trace of text remaining on a page that has been erased

—p.172 by Eula Biss
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3 years, 8 months ago


Most gardens are palimpsests of previous gardens

—p.154 The Rosary (146) by Alexander Chee
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5 years, 10 months ago


it is already a palimpsest, spooked by itself; at least two versions are playing, out of sync

—p.326 Memorex for the Kraken: The Fall's Pulp Modernism (323) by Mark Fisher
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6 years, 3 months ago

the hotel - itself a palimpsest of fantasies and atrocities, an echo chamber of memories and anticipations

—p.172 "You Have Always Been the Caretaker": The Spectral Spaces of the Overlook Hotel (171) by Mark Fisher
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6 years, 3 months ago


the labor movement loves to trace its lineages through the deep palimpsest of antecedent organizations and their mergers and the internal culture shifts they necessitated

—p.49 Fires (45) by Daisy Pitkin
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They are more interested in constructing a quick palimpsest of wounds and tones and triggering events

—p.xvi Introduction (xiv) by Lorrie Moore
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4 years, 9 months ago


a palimpsest in which a certain dream of ease and affluence was painting itself over a complicated tableau of working-­class struggle, certain groups’ stories held up as emblematic

—p.169 Too Marvelous For Words (163) missing author
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4 months, 2 weeks ago


A Theory of Justice was a kind of palimpsest

—p.93 Stretching the Veil (93) missing author
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5 years ago


The tracks are palimpsests

—p.34 The Weird (14) by Mark Fisher
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5 years, 4 months ago


the board was empty aside from a hazy pastel palimpsest to remind them of the work they had done.

—p.104 INFLUENCES (61) by Gabrielle Zevin
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8 months, 1 week ago


Perhaps Facebook no longer fully understands its own tangle of algorithms--the code, all sixty million lines of it, is a palimpsest, where engineers and layer upon layer of new commands.

this is true, I don't even understand how Macro works and I wrote all the (much fewer lines of) code myself

—p.73 Mark Zuckerberg's War on Free Will (56) by Franklin Foer
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7 years, 4 months ago


a palimpsest of texts

—p.177 On Tom McCarthy (169) missing author
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5 years, 11 months ago