Almost everyone knows one of the famous Enlgish palindromes--a sentence that reads the same whether it is read forward or backwards, like the classic "A man, a plan..." Spanish lends itself to wordplay as well, for example, "Anita lava la tina" (Anita washes the pan). In this sense, the palindrome shares the neat geometry of a straight line. Palindromes can takes other shapes as well: author Juan Giraldo proves that he is a great word artist by creating visual palindromes that lead the reader's eye on a journey from which there is no escape. As Daniel Samper points out in the book´s prologue, what begins as game becomes the "pastime of insomniacs".
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