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The moon as a giant tape recorder the moon as preserver of the
evidence, both internal
and external the moon as recording the
signals, the distinctive changes carved on rock
There is language,
then, even on the moon
If not covered up, the recorded signal
is overwritten and destroyed by later events: the
coverage
of old material by younger material
The moon tries to protect
the signal to
preserve the fossil to develop
other processes
The moon, too, buries the record
The immediate result of this
coverage is to remove surface material from further
processing from
wear and tear from the inevitable subsequent impacts that will
disperse the buried materials
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