До мурашек люблю такие штуки
♥ Оказывается, Саторская площадь (Sator Square), расположившаяся перед Незримым Университетом, - это отсылка к одной из самых известных магических формул.
цитатаSATOR SQUARE
Most of those who walk through the streets of Ankh-Morpork never pause to wonder why the square in front of Unseen University is named Sator Square. There is indeed a reason, though you have to search the annals of a different universe to discover it: on Earth, Sator Square is the most famous of all magic squares. But it's no use looking for it on the street map of any city, for it is not that sort of
square. It is a palindromic word square.
These are talismans, difficult to invent, but very powerful. You have to choose a group of words which can be laid out as a square of letters and which (this is the hard bit) will remain the same whether you read it downwards, upwards, from the left or from the right. Most of them are mere gibberish, but the Sator formula does make sense, of a sort. It goes:
S A T O R
A R E P O
T E N E T
O P E R A
R O T A S
© Terry Pratchett "The Folklore of DiscWorld"
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