Palindrome t-shirt
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The lettering trend on t-shirts here seems to be running towards lots of densely-set uppercase gibberish (the letterforms are not Egyptian, but they’re not exactly Swiss Modern; more of an unholy kind of stencil-cut combination of the two). I’m seeing t-shirts and jeans covered in writing, and the sheer density made me think of a t-shirt with Georges Perec’s palindrome on it (incidentally the very opposite of gibberish). I was wondering if it would fit.
Then I thought you could make a real palindrome t-shirt with the same design printed on the inside, too, so if you put it on inside-out it would be OK.
To perfect, perhaps, the palindrome paradigm you would print the premier portion of Perec’s opus:
9691 ,EDNA’ D NILUOM UA
CEREP SEGROEGTrace l’inégal palindrome. Neige. Bagatelle, dira Hercule. Le brut repentir, cet écrit né Perec. L’arc lu pèse trop, lis à vice-versa.
on the outside of the shirt and on the inside end with the second part:
Désire ce trépas rêvé : Ci va ! S’il porte, sépulcral, ce repentir, cet écrit ne perturbe le lucre : Haridelle, ta gabegie ne mord ni la plage ni l’écart.
Georges Perec
Au Moulin d’Andé, 1969
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Posted to General Rants • 2005.07.10 (Sun) • 11:17
Comments
Posted by Carl 2005.07.12, 06:01
Wow-the French is certainly beautifully written-too well written to be fully appreciated by myself (French is my (very) second language). My father says the longest English palindrome is seven words-is that true?
Posted by Jerry Kindall 2005.07.12, 23:36
“The longest English palindrome is seven words?” Not really. Depending on how much sense you want it to make, you can go much longer.
“A new order began; a more Roman age bred Rowena.” “Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?” “Kobe erases old ads as dad loses a Reebok.” “Now, sir, a war is never even—sir, a war is won!”
Or: “A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, hero’s rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a cat, a mane, paper, a Toyota, rep, a pen, a mat, a can, a tag, a banana bag again, or: a camel, a crepe, pins, spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal — Panama!”
(That one is just MADE by “a banana bag again.”)
Posted by Questionable 2005.07.15, 02:33
There are many English palindromes that contain more than seven words.
Posted by Mark 2006.06.30, 07:50
Let me know if you need someone to print the teeshirt for you!!
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