In the Beginning

[Magpie]

In the Beginning
 
Mosaic 1
my first
browser
so much
better than
Veronica 2
 
 
–Erthona

1. Mosaic, is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. Released in 1993.
2. Veronica was a search engine system for the Gopher protocol, developed in 1992 by Steven Foster and Fred Barrie at the University of Nevada, Reno.
 
 
©2015

Hi Dale, I've read this through many times now and at first when I read it my mind just went blank (I'm sure I also read it before you added the explanations of the two names) Although now a day or so later, I am reading it and I am seeing so many different possibilities of what your intentions may have been and also I think I may have  added a few also, not intentionally.
I know that you have already mentioned about the names and the sexual innuendo, but as well as this I'm getting a very religious feeling from it firstly because of the title which is definitely a biblical reference, I'm even starting to think now that it may actually be the first words in Genesis.

As regards the names, I did know a little bit about the name Veronica as I was, (seemingly for my sins) raised as a Catholic, and also it is my Mothers middle name and Catholics don't hand out middle names without knowing the score first. So, "The popular "Saint Veronica" traditionally was a pious woman who wiped the face of Christ when he fell carrying the cross to Calvary. The image of his face remained on the cloth, and what became known as the "veil of Veronica" has been preserved in Rome from the 8c. However when you realise that the etymology of her name derives from Latin "vera" meaning "true" + Greek "eikon" meaning "image." thus Veronica meaning True Image then the chronology of events don't seem to make sense. How can she have been called "True Image" before she wiped the face of Christ which subsequently caused what Christians referred to as the True Image of Christ on the cloth.

I could go on with my theory about mosaic and it's biblical connection Moses and in some senses an even "Truer Image", but just in case I'm a million miles away from where I should be after reading the poem then I'll just leave it there for the moment.

Even if I am totally wrong I have still nevertheless enjoyed the journey of discovery that I was taken on by your poem, thanks for the read.

Mark