Palimpsest

Palimpsest pal·imp·sest /ˈpaləm(p)ˌsest/ Noun

a manuscript that has been erased and written on again, with faint traces of the original writing still visible

“Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers those that came before.”

James A. Secord (1953 -)