#scriptedsilence

@scriptedsilence

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. MC first read this word in Margret Atwood’s, “ Chapter 1″ Handmaids Tale. Atwood writes, “Dances would have been held there; the music lingered, a palimpsest of unheard sound, style upon style, and undercurrent of drums, a forlorn wail, garlands made of tissue-paper flowers, cardboard devils, a revolving ball of mirrors, powdering the dancers with a snow of light.