Palindromes

One of the more interesting use of words and sentences are those that spell the same forwards and backwards. They are called Palindromes, and if you are wondering what the first palindrome was, look it up in the bible. She shows up pretty early. It was the first woman: Eve.
Eve’s mate, the first man, politely introduced himself with the words: “Madam, I’m Adam.” Their children Cain and Able needed to call them something, so Eve thought up the words “Mom” and “Dad.” They were constantly fighting and Able, sensing something was wrong with his violent brother, once scrawled in the dirt: “Cain a maniac.” But did Mom and Dad listen? Noooooo.
Jumping quickly from the Garden of Eden to the French Revolution, I marveled at the sentence that Napoleon was said to have uttered: “Able was I, ere I saw Elba.” (Elba was the name of the island where he was exiled to.) It was described as a nice island in all the brochures. One that “No devil lived on.” Not up until then, at least.
A “racecar” usually goes in only one direction. (I’ve heard that they don’t even have a reverse in the transmissions.) I saw lots on American cars at the last race I attended but “I was sad--no Hondas saw I.” Not even a “civic”. But I am sure I’ll see one at the next race. “A Toyota” will not due, either. Their speed makes them a blur, so I was not surprised to here someone say: “Was it a car or a cat I saw?”
We were at a restaurant recently when our waiter brought the soup very late in the meal. “Wonton? Not now!” I said. “Desserts,” I stressed.
“How about some fruit?” he asked.
“Sure, anything, but “no lemon, no melon.”