Pages on pages

This month's IndieWeb Carnival is being hosted by Marisabel on Pages. Which is a fantastic prompt. Very provoking for bloggers. Here I am trying a digital palimpsest - hover or click to see the text underneath. I've got no idea how it will look in an RSS reader - probably horrid, sorry. We talk about the blank page. How full of potential it can be. How intimidating. How the potential is intimidating. Parchment and vellum were expensive. So people used to recycle. Scrape or wash the ink off and go again. Sometimes more than once. How blank is a page? It's haunted by everything you've ever written before. The spectres of everything that could still be. The possibility of perfection. The page isn't blank. It taunts, it beguiles. This page isn't very easy to read. But then real palimpsests aren't either. They need multispectral imaging and X-ray fluorescence and many were destroyed by earlier attempts to uncover them. It is the same blank page everyone starts with. The greatest book and…