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"Huh?"
"Bore Dave; Evade Rob."
"Evade Dave?"
"No, son."
"Huh?"
"Evade Rob; Bore Dave!"
We were in its clutches. Palindromes are sequences of letters forming a grammatical
word/phrase/sentence that can be conceived forwards in the same manner as backwards, like
"dad", "racecar", "level", and "civic". Spectre and I shared a common disease. We both revered
our obsessions with palindromes. The affliction hooked us years ago when we worked at the
coffeehouse. While sitting on stools at the high table near the video games where on-duty and
off-duty employees traditionally gravitated, we started discussing patterns. Spectre is like that, a
real connoisseur of patterns and puzzles. Untampered by the classroom, he practiced hedonism
with a vigor that only the lost, lonely, or mad could muster, and to occupy idle breathing time, he
filled his notebooks with created symbols of his created language that he planned to teach to a
wife and children someday.
We sat there talking about patterns, and I brought up palindromes. A linguistics teacher of
mine talked about them one time during class, and I thought the concept sounded pretty cool,
pretty surreal and weird, but I never really gave it much more thought until that day in the coffee
house when the magic was born.
"So, I wonder if the word 'penis' can be made into a palindrome," I'd said.
"Well, if you spell that backwards, you get 'S-I-N-E-P'," said Spectre.
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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/m1/5/: accessed May 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .