This is a Book by Demetri Martin5/10/2023 Martin calls his collection of palindromes "Palindromes for Specific Occasions," and includes a description with each one to clue readers into what it describes. But he adds that it's also a sequence of letters or words - even sometimes numbers - that reads the same forward or backward. Martin jokes that most of his material is short and inane, but his section on palindromes reveals his keen talent for wordplay.Ī palindrome is, at least functionally, "a phrase or sentence that you might say that might create awkward silence with other people," Martin says with a laugh. "Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron." "The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door." They range from tongue-in-cheek to wryly clever: "They are short little ideas, so I could just put a sentence or two, and then move on to the next one," he says. In another section, "Epigrams, Fragments and Light Verse," Martin echoes his stand-up style with brief but hilarious snippets.
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