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)