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January 12, 2004

tabla rasa

The empty slate, scraped clean, leaving potential. Rasa, to erase, rase, shave, shaved clean. The slate was covered in wax, the stylus scratched the surface of the wax, describing letters, forming words. When the slate was full, or the lesson was over, the top layer of wax was shaved off, leaving a clean slate.

Posted by john at January 12, 2004 08:59 AM

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