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Twice-Told Tales

An invertible word made of impossible letters, by Basile Morin:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ambigram_Sabotages.png
Image: Wikimedia Commons

An emphatic assertion by Douglas Hofstadter:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wave-particle.jpg
Image: Wikimedia Commons

In 1908, after observing that chump in cursive reads largely the same upside down, the Strand asked for similar specimens and received this:

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2009/02/18/reversible-cursive/

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