April 2010
Palindromes in ancient Sanskrit
Palindromes of considerable complexity were experimented with in Sanskrit poetry. An example which has been called “the most complex and exquisite type of palindrome ever invented”, appears in the 19th canto of the 8th century epic poem śiśupāla-vadha by Magha. It yields the same text if read forwards, backwards, down, or up:
sa-kA-ra-nA-nA-ra-kA-sa- kA-ya-sA-da-da-sA-ya-kA ra-sA-ha-vA...
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Suzie-Q
I. We don’t wear make-up in Yarmouth. We wear army jackets and neon orange or vibrant blue bowls on our heads. We collect large river stones for the floor of our fort that only has 3 walls. The ferns are taller than we are when we’re on our knees; hiding from some children they keep calling my “cousins.”
II. Remember when I took that turn too fast and you couldn’t hang onto the back of the Suzuki?...
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In Answer to Shai
I have a plan. I’m not sure what it is, or what comes next. Tomorrow, if it even happens, could bring sleep. I make to-do lists, all of things I’ll never do. None of it fits into my schedule, really, my schedule of falling. I don’t expect to do these things, things I am not ready for. I don’t think it’s time yet. “Later” is a mystery, a puzzle, a piece of hope, and no—we are not there yet. Now my...
La Forêt
Dans la montagne tout est solitaire,
On entend de bien loin l’écho des voix humaines,
Le soleil qui pénètre au fond de la forêt
Reflète son éclat sur la mousse vert.
—G. Margouliès, 1948
f0x:
airplanes by b.o.b. (feat. hayley...
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can't
I. Suddenly she was aware that he was standing close enough to touch. Wiping the last of her makeup off, she told the image of him in the mirror, “I’m sorry I can’t be what you’re looking for.” He wrapped his arms around her. “Love is not reciprocation,” he said to her reflection.
II. She was perched on his right leg, scrolling through his...
