Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] outrageously off topic correction
Date: Apr 16, 2001 @ 10:11
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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good correction
& maybe not so far off topic
since real palindromes are diplomatic texts of a sort
producing lines with precisely fixed terminals
& a perceptible median or boundary point
faithfully reflecting not just equidistance but total reciprocity


my own interest in what is more usually thought of as boundary pointing
around here grew from a need to break out of the rigorous symmetry of
palindroming
which i was able to do only by expanding its enforced duality
into trinity & beyond
thanx to tripointing etc

but both of these interests can become equally magnificent obsessions
especially when combined


like when naming
& even hanging a sign at
a previously unnamed lake in ekalaka montana

ekalaka lake
aka lake ekalaka

as a chaser after visiting nearby mtndsd a few years ago


in fairness too
even if the anagrammatic effort below is not a palindrome
it is no ordinary anagram but a perfect reversal
albeit of a misspelling of nullarbor
& it is thus at least a good start toward a true pal

m


>
>
>>And for fifty thousand dollars, a nullabor is which of the following:
>>4. A palindrome for the famous Arabic comedy star Rob Al Lun.
>
>Can't be 4, because Rob Al Lun is an anagram of nullabor.
>Palindromes read the same back and formt, ie
>Napoleon's motto:
>Able was I ere I saw Elba
>or
>The first words Eve heard:
>Madam, I'm Adam
>
>so I plump for 5. None of the above.
>I hope it's 50k US dollars, and not 50k Aussie bananas.