The Tears of the Conjoined

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The Tears of the Conjoined is a book from the Fansus timeline. The author wrote under the pseudonym of Madam Reviver.

Description

An acrostic poem in the style of the tomb of Silo of Oviedo; each page contains numerous ways of reading the same phrase.

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The awkward wording allows each phrase to be read differently backwards and forwards. Reading the book from front to back produces a different poem than reading from back to front.

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Particular phrases are repeated in both the forwards and backwards poems. What power is held in these words?