Subject: nes saw was tsawwassen
Date: Sep 06, 2004 @ 15:45
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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several days of pondering the proper spelling &
multidimensional meaning of the true & original
tsawwassen have led me into the land of cuddly
monsters & archetypes


field notes from which
working backwards
from &or to its indigenous cosmogony
as follows

first & foremost
a struggle to discover just what nes saw was

or better yet
a struggle to discover just what nes saw is
if possible
so as to continue working backwards in any case
& regardless of whether
this particular
w a s
proves to be an aphoristic aorist or not
as in
a stitch in time saved 9
rather than saves 9

since after all
the saw might more truly be an aphorism than a cutting
tool
& might most truly be both



so the idea of a nes saw
any nes saw of any description
becomes the necessary mother invention


a serrated &or serrating water monster
http://www.andybaird.com/travels/first/photos/nessie.jpg
familiar enough to lop a letter here or there
& even call herself nes
thus perhaps more as she appears here
an actually knocking just such a letter off monster
http://todmar.net/quality4u/ebay/books/nessie-the-lochness-monster.jpg

well how ridiculous is that

but
bc is well known to be ground zero for monsters

indeed it is the bulk of the greater bigfoot area

& there is thought to be an ogopogo living there too

you know
our palindromic american cousin of nessie
http://www.kelownabc.com/kelowna/kelowna8.php


so one is almost bound to imagine that the tsawwing
sound & imagery that are so vivid there
not only in all the tswishin of the original name
but the actual cutting of the border performed there
by such a monstrous sawcut
are
in the highest traditions of native story telling
not only autochthenous & onomatopoeic but mnemonic as
well
& that tsawwassen either was formerly or is
archetypically the place of the worlds most truly
monstrous tsaw cut
thanx to its own unforgettable voluntary testimony

until which btw
tsawwassen used to mean
in real indian
land facing the sea
rather than only
land facing point roberts
as it does today



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