Alexandrian Text

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    A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;—read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    I am so glad you have been able to preserve the text in all of its impurity.
    Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)