Today’s expression: « Prendre des vessies pour des lanternes »

Definition: « se faire des illusions grossières sur des choses ou des gens ; se tromper lourdement dans ses appréciations ; être naïf ; se faire des illusions ; faire une confusion absurde et naïve ; se tromper grossièrement »

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Tenet is a palindrome. Not only is it a palindrome. It lies at the center of the first known palindrome.

This is the Sator Square. When the Latin words are read top to bottom, the sentence reads, “sator arepo tenet opera rotas.” While this is not exactly grammatically correct, it roughly translates to either “The sower Arepo holds the wheels with effort,” or “The sower Arepo leads with his hand the plow.”

The picture above shows the multidirectional palindrome etched in a wall in the medieval fortress town of Oppède-le-Vieux, France. The earliest discovery of the Sator Square dates to pre-A.D. 62. Some versions of the Roman-era square were written with ROTAS as the first word. It’s a versatile tile.

To learn more about the Sator Square, check out Tenet, a film by Christopher Nolan. When you’re done watching it the first time through, press pause, take a deep breath, and watch it again but backwards. I dare you.

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Brain teaser:

You have to start with six coins arranged as in the first image below and finish with them arranged in a circle as in the second image below.

The rules:

• You have three moves max.
• You can only slide one coin at a time.
• When a coin is moved, it must end up touching two other coins.
• While moving one coin you may not push another coin aside.

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