Fun with Palindromes: Difference between revisions

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''Was it a car or a cat I saw?"''|Bob, [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]}}

 

 

Not to be confused with [[Sdrawkcab Name]].

 

== Comic Books ==

* A 2011 issue of the comic book [[Zatanna]] had the sorceress (who pronounces the words in her spells backwards) going up against a villain with time-reversal powers, that allowed him to negate her spells by having them sound like normal words. She got around his powers by casting spells in palindromes (such as "Nurses Run" causing him to be stampeded by an army of running nurses).

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon|Callahan's Legacy]]'' by [[Spider Robinson]], every chapter title is a palindrome. Notably, the chapter in which [[Nikola Tesla]] visits the bar glories in the title, "I, Madam, I Made Radio. So I Dared. Am I Mad? Am I?"

** And the subversion in the chapter named "Rettebs, I Flahd Noces, Eh? Tu, But the Second Half is Better..."

== Music ==

* [[They Might Be Giants]] have a song called "I Palindrome I," which features:

** Word palindromes

** "Conceptual" palindromes: references to springs and ouroboros/amphisbaena.

** Musical palindromes: The bridge of the song is a [[wikipedia:Crab canon|crab canon]].

* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s "Bob", a homage to [[Bob Dylan]]'s "Subterranean Homesick Blues", is written entirely in palindromes.

 

== Radio ==

 

== Other ==

* A 1934 New York ''Sun'' review of a Max Reger string quartet: "Reger might be epitomized as a composer whose name is the same either forward or backward, and whose music, curiously, often displays the same characteristic."

 

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