Filed under: Dagens ord / Word(s) of the day, bla bla on writing and language, notes on cph
A word:
palimpsest |ˈpalimpˌsest|
noun
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.
• figurative something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form : Sutton Place is a palimpsest of the taste of successive owners.
DERIVATIVES
palimpsestic |ˌpalimpˈsestik| adjective
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: via Latin from Greek palimpsēstos, from palin
‘again’ + psēstos ‘rubbed smooth.’
A figure and a book:
Rachilde, Homme de Lettres – Son Oeuvre, Portrait et Autographe by André David
A website:
Mohammed Image Archive
A sentence and a tune:
“What’s love got to, got to do with it?”
A film:
Derek Jarman’s Blue
(I’m indebted to Akram Zaatari and his work This Day (2003, 86 minutes) for the title of this post. Thank you for an inspiration, which in this case is more of an association than a theoretical consideration)
Filed under: notes on cph
“It is a curious fact of literary history that canon formation has been particularly aggressive following wars, when nationalist feeling runs high and there is a strong wish to define a tradition.”
Elaine Showalter, the introduction to The New Feminist Criticism
(quoted in Naomi Schor’s George Sand & Idealism, p. 25)
Filed under: never written books - or telling titles
(Are there Dead Fish in the Aquarium?)
