St Veronica's ---oh,and

[Michael Bailey]

Isn't a veronica some kind of aerial maneuver for planes?

On 12/24/05, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Veronica
>
> (Interesting tie-in with V., for that matter.) ( and Archie comics )
> St Veronica was supposed to have given Jesus a hankie on his
> deathmarch, with  which he wiped the beads of sweat from his suffering
> face.
> An imprint of his face, quoth Wikipedia, stayed on the linen, and was
> preserved among many such relics by the Church, and:
> To distinguish at Rome the oldest and best known of these images it
> was called vera icon (true image), which ordinary language soon made
> veronica"
>
> Ordinary language also made "Bethlehem" Hospital into Bedlam, and St
> Audrey's into "tawdry"
>
> Why Veronica would be a fitting saint for the hospital: hmmm, no
> surmises come to mind.  But splicing the St Veronica's bus station,
> and the St Veronica's hospital scenes, both have to do with singling
> out an individual in a crowd and offering comfort after a fashion.
> Especially the bus station scene, where all is departure, departure,
> and only occasionally does one soul come towards another -- and that
> maps strangely unto Pointsman's wish for a Fox -- which also fits with
> the Evacuation scene at the beginning, and a feeling of social
> estrangement that nobody yet in the book has surmounted.
> But, I feel that Gwenhidwy is going to soon.
> And Christmas is coming!
>
> On 12/23/05, jbor at bigpond.com <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> > > Note also that the full name is "the Hospital of St. Veronica of the
> > > True Image for Colonic and Respiratory Diseases" (46), which seems to
> > > be another variation on the theme of "shit, money, and the Word" --
> > > well, maybe not "money" so much, except that Pointsman's main gripe is
> > > to do with insufficient funding.
> >
> > And except that, of course, it was built as a private Catholic hospital
> > in the city where only the wealthy could afford to go, their
> > predominantly excretory and respiratory ailments the result, one might
> > infer, of excesses of eating and smoking.
> >
> > best
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> "Acceptance, forgiveness, love - now that's a philosophy of life!"
> -Woody Allen, as Broadway Danny Rose
>


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