1. B. A. Ramsey, author of a work in progress, entitled A Sicilian Armour, has his narrator who, in his travels abroad to Sicily, discovers ruins and 'reccurred by prognostication of thought to a time..." It is uncertain what Palimpsestical Memory has to do with this contemporary nonfiction:
Following Freud’s essay on memory and the children’s mystic writing pad (1925), this vision of memory takes the form of a superimposition and interaction of different temporal traces to constitute a sort of composite structure, like a palimpsest, so that one layer of traces can be seen through, and is transformed by, another. The composite structure which results from this superimposition of different temporal traces is a of not simply two moments in time (past and present) but a number of different moments and places, hence producing a chain of signification which draws together disparate spaces and times.
In-text: (urban palimpsests and the archive)
Bibliography: urban palimpsests and the archive,. 'Prof Max Silverman, The Palimpsest And Cosmopolitical Memory'. N.p., 2012. Web. 21 Feb. 2015.
1. prognostikos gk. foreknowing
2. progignoskein, pro - before, gignoskein - come to know
3. pro - before and Greek prefix
4. gnostikos gk. knowing, able to discern
5. gignoskein gk. to learn, come to know
6. cnawan O.E. to know
7. witan proto-germanic - 'to have seen' hence 'to know'
8. foreseon O.E. - have a premonition
9. fore - before
10. seon - see, see ahead
prognostication means to come to know beforehand, able to discern of before; and diferent from foreseeing, which is a premontion, to see ahead, from the earliest time i.e. before the event happens.
prognostication means (merriam-webster) a statement about what is going to happen in the future.
foreknow (merriam-webster) to have previous knowledge of; know beforehand especially by paranormal means or by revelation
foresee (merriam-webster) to see or become aware of (something that has not yet happened)
***addendum*** I suppose for all witan cnawant types the mystery of how any one is privy to the magic required in forming prognostications might be understood, but I withdraw the assertion that I prognosticate or am somehow prognosticative in the entitlement of my poetry or prose, but stick for now in choosing it for my narrator in A Sicillian Armour, a work that has not progressed much beyond the first chapter. It may have been as simple as wheat or meat.
foreseen: Old English foreseon "have a premonition," from fore- "before" + seon "to see, see ahead" (see see (v.)). Perhaps modeled on Latin providere. Related: Foresaw; foreseeing;foreseen. Similar formation in Dutch voorzien, German vorsehen.
Middle English for-, fore-, from Old English fore-, often for- or foran-, from fore (adv. & prep.), which was used as a prefix in Old English as in other Germanic languages with a sense of "before in time, rank, position," etc., or designating the front part or earliest time.
*** addendum *** Prognostication is defined as the action of foretelling or prophesying future events. In its greek origin it is the word meaning 'foreknowing'; and, to foreknow is to be aware of an event before it happens. While it is true that a vision of memory, that has been termed above as 'palimpsestic', is one that forms a composite structure of disparate places and times, thus informing us of a past that refuses the "competitive identity politics" of the present that one assimilates to and becomes complacent in, for the sake of, perhaps, accomodating one's social group; nevertheless, one who engages in 'palimpsestic memory', must reason that it is process which is initiated in response to an incommensurability with the present times, which has led one to be removed from his or her social group tentatively, to form a gathering of these disparate places and times in the past; however, the complete process depends on a prognostication, or foreknowing, which is a gathering of what has proceeded an event, not necessarily in a linear fashion, but one which recalls also "disparate times and places", that enables one who prognosticates, to not only counter a "competitive identity" that may have been misguided, but to foretell or predict what may occur if that identity is left unchecked, and therefore influence a present circumstance.
I suggest that Max Silverman has attempted 'prognostication', as is a natural process to undertake from an undefined, unknown past, which shall always remain as such, to nevertheless, an outcome or prognosis of what that past shall become with respect to the future, to the one who is 'prognostic'.
I ask, therefore, whether Palimpsests are tools for prognosis, and I suggest that the Oxford English Dictionary, former to the one now in print, which I believe was complete until the 1980's new edition, does a beginning to define the word, prognostication, of which there are only two references cited.
Unfortunately, I do not have that OED currently at my disposal; however, I am hoping to puchase a copy shortly..
A word, of course, that Oxford has never defined is the heading of this section of palimpestical.page.tl. But I suppose, if taken seriously, Oxford could define that word, too. But I'm not sure I can.
Pro-gnos-ti-fi-ca-tion is not far from Pro-gnos-ti-ca-tion,and all Latin to me.
***addendum*** Perhaps when one prognostifies, one is prognostificate in both the noun meaning and verb meaning
Prognosis is defined in 'Oxford Dictionaries' on-line as,
1.2A forecast of the likely outcome of a situation:gloomy prognoses about overpopulation
yet referring to 'Prognostic' there is only one sense of the adjective that pertains to medical science; and the general forecast is relegated to an archaic sense, involving omen. It is interesting that 'Prognostic' as it pertains to medical science is more certain under that heading, whereas concerning 'Prognosis' it denotes in "an opinion".
Definition of prognostic in English:
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An advance indication of a future event; an omen:a pale moon and watery sun are known as prognostics of rain
Is a prediction of a likely course of a medical condition, so much more prognostic than an advance indation of a future event; or, an omen?
***addendum*** prognostify could have meaning in the way data of recorded observation in prognoses is assessed.
The Classification of Prognifics As They Pertain to Prognosis In Our Studies Of Medical Science:
Author: B. A. Ramsey
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'Prognifics', involving medical data, could one day enable the prediction of a medical condition as it once pertained to the ambiguous term 'Prognosis' .
'Prognifics' relate to, or serve to, support the likely course of a medical condition, that is the area of Prognostics.
When one 'prognostifies', one 'prognostificates' and is the 'prognostificant'. Prior to this, was committed the malpractice of 'prognostication', necessarily involving one who prognosticates, and is described as a 'prognosticant'.
The 'prognostificant' should always be called before the 'prognosticant'.
Nor, would the case deserve the specialty of the 'prognosignificant', but rather endeavor to acquire the result of the 'prognostic-significant.'
Of course, it has been incorrect to say a 'prognostic' is ever significant, for the science of 'prognostics' has entailed this.
In order to acquire the desired result of the 'prognostic-significant', a measuring of 'prognificant' data observed in the field of 'prognifics' is required to form 'prognoses' in 'prognostics'.
Analyses in the field of 'Prognifics' ought to be gathered by statistical inquiry, and gathered ethically, for the knowledge of Statistics accumulates data from known sources and polls frequencies, which could perhaps enable the Medical Doctor to form a more useful opinion with respect to 'prognosis' one day.
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2.(a) Is Max Silverman 'liberal' in the implied context of B. A. Ramsey's first chapðter. I suggest this is not an unfair question to ask.
The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film Max Silverman.
Books.google.ca,. 'Isbn:0857458841 - Google Search'. N.p., 2015. Web. 17 Feb. 2015.
I do not doubt that the full title is noted in the reference, but his title is indulgent - to suggest memory is ever palimpsestic is "liberal indulgence of a prolifigate...kind". The most prolifigate, I withold, because I don't know the author, and have know right to accuse him of being licenteous. Certainly, wasteful of a resource, unless he discovers in his subject a palimpsest, or palimpsests, which I defend by my own definition (see Define Palimpsest).
Is sa palimpsest liberal? It is, if liberal is the willingness to part with tradition for new opinions or behavior, and is defined by google as such.For, the definition of the adjective liberal is not far from how the word palimpsest has been defined elsewhere. One wonders if they are synonyms! I suggest a liberal palimpsestic contemporary literature exists, therefore; but, I deny B. A. Ramsey is Palimpsestic in that sense. But I am presently at a loss for an adjective which could qualify palimpestical's home page assertion that only recognizes palimpsestical literature in a broad sense, and fails to define a difference; but, of course, it is obvious.
Presently, therefore, I state that this website, with respect to B. A. Ramsey, contains example's of "Contemporary Prognosticative Palimpsestic English Literature", and shall hope to find birds of a feather.
Supranaturalism = Supernaturalism 1913 Webster, Britainica