Molly Schwartzburg contributed an essay, "Tracing Traces: Variations on the Theme of the Palimsest in Tom Phillips' A Humument. She concludes that "the palimsestic elements of this book suggest that what we construct is not a stable object. Instead, texts as we read them can only function as parts of a shifting set of relationships determined by the fact of reading." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.