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Honchar were active
palindromists, while Roman Sadlovskyi contributed some interesting visual pieces.
First, unlike most
palindromists who typically compose their palindromic sentences two reversal or semi-reversal words at a time, Bergerson typically commenced with an initial pair of reversal phrases, for which purpose he assembled lists of such phrase pairs.
MARK SALTVEIT ('palindromistmag@gmail.com'> reports that he is working on a book about
palindromists throughout history, specifically including Howard Bergerson, Dmitri Borgmann, J.A.
Katz realized that a renowned
palindromist like Leona would never have written such an unintelligible palindrome unless it had some other additional constraint hidden within it.
I then decided to discard the traditional crossword ban on unchecked squares, but to keep the rule of grid symmetry, an especially pleasing goal for a
palindromist.
I asked several of the
palindromists who were in the geopalcontest that resulted in a lot of new geograhical palindromes.
So what isit we do, we
palindromists? Is our art worthwhile, does it meananything?
These were entitled, respectively, "Palindromes: The Rotas Square," "Palindromes: The Rotas Prehistory" and "Palindromes: The Ascending Tradition." Historical rather than logological studies, they are of considerable interest to
palindromists of an historical turn of mind both for their comprehensive discussion of the well-known sator word square and for their deeply-researched survey of examples of ancient and medieval palindromic writing, many of which I have never seen mentioned elsewhere in wordplay literature.