• Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

  Russell Hoban
  American writer 1925-2011
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1. archeological
2. palimpsest
3. history
4. whole
5. human

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Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. by : Russell Hoban

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