Leonardo

I never met Leonardo in person, but in the Louvre, there was one other person smiling the day I was there: I was, and I even spoke to Mono Lisa, but she kept smiling back, as if there was no point in trying to start a conversation. I suspect that when I left, she was on the verge of bursting into a horrendous laugh. Meanwhile, back at the farm, I decided to start reading backwards, in the hope I could understand why Leonardo wrote backwards. I still haven't got a clear answer, although palindromes are now more obvious to me.