Barry Duncan is called ‘the grasp palindromist.’ For these unfamiliar with the time period, palindromes are phrases, phrases or sentences that may be learn the identical means ahead and backward, equivalent to ‘race automotive’ and ‘a person, a plan, a canal, Panama’. Few persons are as dedicated to the shape as Duncan, who creates palindromes that vary anyplace from two phrases to a whopping 800 or extra. On this charming brief from the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise, the place Duncan works as a bookseller, he particulars the immense pleasure he finds in arranging his ‘26 steadfast and devoted collaborators’ into reversible reads.
