'palinode' in How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays | Bookmarker

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(noun) an ode or song recanting or retracting something in an earlier poem / (noun) a formal retraction

Edinburgh is a palinode. The gods, offended by a speech, require the speaker to make another, its opposite.

—p.233 The Guardians (221) by Alexander Chee

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