01-07-2015, 09:08 AM
Dale,
I'm quite relieved that I wasn't a million miles away in my interpretation of your poem. A year ago I would have read the same poem and went away none the wiser, so I suppose my time on this site has taught me a lot about giving poems time to sink in and also about research.
As regards my connection between veronica (Saint Veronica) and mosaic (Moses), I didn't have any absolute connection as such, I was somewhat improvising as I went along and hoping that at some point a connection would appear. I was kind of going with something along the lines of ancient relics and their relevance and importance to the overall whole. My mistake was presuming that 'veronica' would also have a biblical connection once I had seen the biblical reference with 'mosaic'.
I agree with you that the person or persons who named 'mosaic' had Moses in mind although I have found no reference to this anywhere. I was wondering about where the name 'veronica' came from and I've just found out that the name for what is believed to have been the first search engine was 'archie', this name was simply derived from the word 'archive', however some people thought the name came from 'Archie Comics' and thus two subsequent search engines 'veronica' and 'jughead' were named after characters from Archie Comics as a kind of homage to the original.
Once again, thank you for the read.
Mark
I'm quite relieved that I wasn't a million miles away in my interpretation of your poem. A year ago I would have read the same poem and went away none the wiser, so I suppose my time on this site has taught me a lot about giving poems time to sink in and also about research.
As regards my connection between veronica (Saint Veronica) and mosaic (Moses), I didn't have any absolute connection as such, I was somewhat improvising as I went along and hoping that at some point a connection would appear. I was kind of going with something along the lines of ancient relics and their relevance and importance to the overall whole. My mistake was presuming that 'veronica' would also have a biblical connection once I had seen the biblical reference with 'mosaic'.
I agree with you that the person or persons who named 'mosaic' had Moses in mind although I have found no reference to this anywhere. I was wondering about where the name 'veronica' came from and I've just found out that the name for what is believed to have been the first search engine was 'archie', this name was simply derived from the word 'archive', however some people thought the name came from 'Archie Comics' and thus two subsequent search engines 'veronica' and 'jughead' were named after characters from Archie Comics as a kind of homage to the original.
Once again, thank you for the read.
Mark
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