patricia j patane’s Reviews > To Break Russia's Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks > Status Update

I just learned a new word I had not seen before “palimpsest “ it means “ a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but which traces remain. “
“ But to the knowing eyes of a revolutionary the city was a palimpsest where an often violent past glimmers through the stone water and air. “