AtDDtA(15): Alonzo R. Meatman

[Mark Kohut]

Me Atman.

Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:  "Time did not so much elapse as grow less relvant. At length Chick
saw the recently vanished 'contact' reappear from vacant space, now
bathed in hues of apricot and aquamarine.
"'You again.'
"'Little trick of the trade. Had to see how serious you were,'
said Alonzo Meatman (for it was he)." (AtD, Pt. II, p. 412)


"hues of apricot and aquamarine"

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0708&msg=120718

Hayles, N. Katherine and Mary B. Eiser.
"Coloring Gravity's Rainbow," Pynchon Notes 16
(Spring 1985): 3-24 .

http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pn/pn016.pdf


Alonzo Meatman

Alonzo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Italian variant of ALFONSO

http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=alonzo

ALFONSO
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian
Pronounced: ahl-FAWN-so

Spanish and Italian form of a Visigothic Germanic name, probably
meaning "noble and ready", from the element adal "noble" combined with
funs "ready". Other theories claim the first element is ala "all",
hadu "struggle" or hild "battle" (see ILDEFONSO). It is possible that
two or more names merged into a single form. This was the name of six
kings of Portugal and kings of several ancient regions of Spain.

http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=alfonso

Meatman, Alonzo R.
405; (first appearance misspelled "Meattman"); sold Zoot the time
machine; 410; 412; lycopodium type, 413; Mr. Ace's tool, 414; at the
Harmonica Academy, 419-422;

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=M

"Meattman" = me ATT man?

http://imdb.com/title/tt0062153/

Alonzo Meatman
Meatman translated to German is Fleischmann, as in Fleischmann's,
makers of yeast, margarine, and assorted spreads.

Yes, perhaps a cheesy spread, like that smegmo! In 1973, Jerry Lee
Lewis recorded an homage to his oral talents entitled "Meat Man" in
which he brags of having "a maytag tongue with a sensitive taste."
This fits in with The Sexual Angle in AtD. Read the lyrics.... And
there are those great balls of fire known as ball lightning.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_397-428#Page_405

Alonzo R. Meatman = A.R.M.

http://www.arm.gov/about/acronyms.stm


       
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