回文趣聯 佚名
人過大彿寺 寺彿大過人
Palindrome Chinese Couplet -- 'Sampler 1'
(for a certain Temple)
-- by Anon
-- Translated by Frank C Yue
The pedestrians pass the Big Buddha
Temple by;
The temple Buddha's bigger than the
passers-by.
The most famous palindrome is probably the following one, popularly attributed to
Napoleon Bonaparte. (Was his English really so good, I wonder. After Napoleon's
defeat at Waterloo he was exiled from 1814 to 1815 on Elba, a tiny mountainous
86-sq. mile Italian island in the Mediterranean between Corsica and Tuscany.)
"ABLE WAS I ERE I SAW ELBA"
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