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1TeacherDad
Wow -- my Prof said someone actually wrote an entire novel that's a palindrome. He also said it was darn awful, but have any of you actually read one? Anna, Otto? Madam, Adam?
just curious...
just curious...
2vpfluke
In LT, someone has a book, 2002: a palindrome story in 2002 words. In Amazon, this book is available in a digital format only. This might be the book?
The French post-WWII literary school, Oulipo, has writers who have played a lot with words. Raymond Queneau wrote a book, Exercises in Style, which rewrote the same two linked vignettes in 99 different ways. I don't think any of these were a palindrome.
The French post-WWII literary school, Oulipo, has writers who have played a lot with words. Raymond Queneau wrote a book, Exercises in Style, which rewrote the same two linked vignettes in 99 different ways. I don't think any of these were a palindrome.
3Mr.Durick
Wikipedia says, "Two "palindromic novels" appeared, in limited editions, during the 1980s: Dr Awkward & Olson in Oslo by Lawrence Levine and Satire: Veritas by David Stephens."
I think they must have been word by word or line by line palindromes.
Robert
I think they must have been word by word or line by line palindromes.
Robert
4TeacherDad
thanks... I did find a "poem" online which was basically a list of 1000s of words strung together and made absolutely no sense, forward or bass ackwards...
5graywyvern
i have & have read both of the palindromic "novels" & can verify that, as intelligible expression, they stink. however, as oddities of verbal expression, they are both exquisitely unlikely.