Playing Saul's Spot

Playing Saul's Spot
(a nested poem on Ad Insertion, as peformed at a certain company, by certain software which is no longer running)

This is
(1) the tape that Saul wants played.

This is
(2) the Ad Salesman who took Saul's instructions and also (1)

This is
(3) the Traffic Coordinator who labelled the tape she got from (2)

This is
(4) the Operator who encodes the tape with the id he got from (3)

This is
(5) the Library which stores the spot it gets from (4)

This is
(6) the Pump that multicasts the spot it gets from (5)

This is
(7) the Big Dish that beams out the spot as directed by (6)

This is
(8) the Satellite, far out in space, which echoes the spot it hears from (7)

This is
(9) the Little Dish, out in the Field, which receives the spot from (8)

This is
(10) the Portal, which collects the spot from (9)

This is
(11) the Ferry, running on a leaf, which requests the spot from (10)

This is
(12) the Engine, which plays the spot it obtains from (11)



Twelve? As in days of Christmas? Very strange. I did not plan to make it with 12 levels. My next project is illustrating it. (Note to me: talk with the SmallPax-ifiers.) Then at least I can publish Subsidiarity for Kids even if I can't get the adult version finished. Hee hee.

If you are wondering why the guy with the spot is named Saul, you will have to wait a bit, and maybe I will post that too.

I will also explain the terms, though anyone who knows Latin will know why the program which handles the file transport is called "ferry".

(A hint: fero, ____, tuli, latus).