Palimpsest/Citations

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Citations of palimpsest

  • 1973 — ... their lips were palimpsests of secret flesh, scarred and unnaturally white, by which they all knew each other. — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
  • 1973 — ... hand and chalk poised in winter gloom over these poor human palimpsests shivering under their government blankets ... — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
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