Background:
Originally an old playground toy. Taken as an internet screen name, an anthropopathism of said teeter-totter is accomplished.
With the "see" replaced by a "C", a poetic image of a sea is imposed upon the "teeter-totter as a scale" concept by emphasizing it phonetically. Thus giving it the quality of vastness. Much as the multitudes of meager molecules of water form something as grand as a sea, so the parts of a teeter-totter contrive to bring about a concept of balance and/or transition. When thinking of the metaphores a sea or ocean can conjure, coupled with the set of metaphores a teeter-totter can conjure as well; we are greeted with a universal application of balance or duality or transitions from negative and positive. All done with four letters, at very little cost of breath and breadth.
Originally an old playground toy. Taken as an internet screen name, an anthropopathism of said teeter-totter is accomplished.
With the "see" replaced by a "C", a poetic image of a sea is imposed upon the "teeter-totter as a scale" concept by emphasizing it phonetically. Thus giving it the quality of vastness. Much as the multitudes of meager molecules of water form something as grand as a sea, so the parts of a teeter-totter contrive to bring about a concept of balance and/or transition. When thinking of the metaphores a sea or ocean can conjure, coupled with the set of metaphores a teeter-totter can conjure as well; we are greeted with a universal application of balance or duality or transitions from negative and positive. All done with four letters, at very little cost of breath and breadth.
by N November 2, 2004