I wouldn’t have used the word
palindromic to describe the happenings of this story:
Aliens arrive in 1964, and their sense of time is backward from ours. It’s not palindromic
because they experience the events in backward order: If I spell out the word
time,
they will hear
e-m-i-t. It would be cool, however, to have a real palindromic story
where some sequence of events in reverse is the same as that sequence experienced forward,
like the expression
emit time.
P.S. I just stumbled across another time travel story
that is an actual palindrome! The Palindrome Paradox.
He seemed to be trying hard to find the right word. “They’re palindromic.”
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