Philosophy Wire: Silence. Speaking everything.

Students have discovered lost text on 15th-century manuscript leaves using an imaging system they developed as freshmen. By using ultraviolet-fluorescence imaging, the students revealed that a manuscript leaf held in RIT's Cary Graphic Arts Collection was actually a palimpsest, a manuscript on parchment with multiple layers of writing. [1] Hidden words. Beneath words. And beneath them other words. And other. And other. And beneath all of them... silence. Think about it, Stop talking. Stop thinking. Can you listen to the flowers? They are the only ones talking anyway.

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