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form will eventually evoke when the palindrome achieves continuous grammatical implication. I
feel a sense of mystery in the fact that I have created an image that I would probably never
thought of had I not employed palindromy as an image generator. Something exists that didn't
exist before, at least not on the conscious level. In a letter to Michael Donner, author of a I Love
Me, Vol I, Joaquin Kuhn, co-author of Rat's Live on no evil star: The Backwards Puzzle Book,
writes:
I have a very strong preference for palindrome sentences, whole ideas that incorporate a
subject and a predicate, however wacky the complete utterance may be. One of my
reasons for this is that in human language, it is the sentence, the communication of a
whole idea, that everything else exists for. Not words in themselves, but words put
together in meaningful patterns. A palindrome that contains the grammatical pattern of a
sentence but somehow floats free of ordinary logical sense is to me a special form of
nonsense creation. It invites closer and closer scrutiny, in hope of its yielding some sense,
like a charm or oracular utterance in need of a solution. A palindromic sentence is created
following two rigorous laws: it has basic grammatical structure, and the sequence of
letters reverses in the middle (no exceptions!). When such a rigorously composed group
of words makes sense of any kind, it carries a kind of mystic appeal, as though when
character sequences were turned back on themselves, they revealed extraordinary truths
like Jungian shadows or subconscious doubles - mirror images of language of hermetic
significance.520
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McConnell, Michael Constantine. Outer Reaches of the Palindrome, thesis, December 2003; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4407/m1/23/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .