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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas
This untranslatable palindromic charm, discovered as graffiti in Pompeii, dates back to the first century CE. Written as a “magic square,” the sentence reads the same left to right, bottom to top, top to bottom, and backwards.
I love the Sator Square!
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