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forms and ideas are the fabric of Jungian archetype, ingrained in our being through nature.
According to Huntley:
The mental processes evoked in all men for a million years past by their physical
environment have deposited a soil in which the roots of the psyche are deeply and
securely implanted. Experiences of al the generations of a man's ancestors, repeated
millions of times and recorded as memory structures in the brain, are scored ever more
deeply as they are transmitted from generation to generation through the centuries, often
showing a brief vitality in unaccountable dreams."63
All that I can do, really, as is the case with every individual concerning any imaginable
topic, is draw my own conclusions. Palindromes have affected the way I look at reality - they
have affected my art and my personality; I never knew when I co-wrote my first palindrome -
Bob has inept penis. Ah, Bob - that I would be nurtured toward recursion. I believe intuition led
me down this path. At first, my enthusiasm for palindroming rested in the ludicrous, random
contexts that could be squeezed out of the sequence's letters. After all, to quote contemporary
palindromist William Irvine, "... at least half the fun of the palindrome is its random celebration
of the absurd.... ,64 Still, something inside of me nags that the palindrome represents more, and
this past summer brought to light a palindrome within the Y (male) chromosome that is more
than two million genetic characters long, a sequence that scientists attribute to the male
chromosome's resistance to mutation- because the gene has a means of checking itself.65 And
Nature has shown that the joints of most mammals are spread across their limbs in accordance
with the Divine Proportion, a ratio that the equiangular spiral can be derived from. Of course,
this alludes to something that I will write toward for the rest of my life - the palindrome as a
primal principle of physical grammar, a signature of some type. For now, I must not lose touch43
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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/m1/46/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .