AtDDtA(15): Alonzo R. Meatman

[Dave Monroe]

On 8/7/07, 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)

Notes on the name of Alonzo Meatman

Alonzo Quijano , a character from Miguel de Cervantes' novel, Don
Quixote de la Mancha was a poor unknown hidalgo from somewhere in La
Mancha in Spain who gained fame by assuming the name of Don Quixote de
la Mancha and the persona of a knight-errant. He was inspired by
reading countless tales of chivalry.

So Alonzo Qujano is looking for identity, and for meaning, and for
hope in the past, in a new identity.. As seem to be the "time
travelers".

Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American
mathematician and logician who was responsible for some of the
foundations of theoretical computer science. Born in Washington, DC,
he received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1924,
completing his Ph.D. there in 1927, under Oswald Veblen. After a
postdoc at Göttingen, he taught at Princeton, 1929–1967, and at the
University of California, Los Angeles, 1967–1990.
Church is best known for the following accomplishments:
• His proof that Peano arithmetic and first-order logic are
undecidable. The latter result is known as Church's theorem.
• His articulation of what has come to be known as Church's thesis.
• He was the founding editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic, editing
its reviews section until 1979.
• His creation of the lambda calculus.

Here is a guy who helped lay the groundwork for a whole new kind of
communication via binary logic. as Zo Metman is an itermediary between
times.

Zo- animal as root of Zoology Greek ζῴον, zoon ("animal")
Zorro-Spanish for Fox. Zorro was created in 1919 by pulp writer
Johnston McCulley, and first made his appearance in The Curse of
Capistrano, serialized in the pulp magazine All-Story Weekly.
Zoro (Persian, Zoroaster) shine, gold aster = star
Zo Zomi is the name of an ethnic group of people that occupy Northwest
Burma,...The word "Zo" has many literal meanings such as "win",
"respond", "higher altitude", "conquer" etc.
Meat-man, Meet Man, Me Atman- The Atman or Atma (IAST: Ātmā, sanskrit:
आत्म‍ ) is a philosophical term used within Hinduism and Vedanta to
identify the soul. It is one's true self (hence generally translated
into English as 'Self') beyond identification with the phenomenal
reality of worldly existence.

More Zo Meatman notes: Dr.(Zo)ot sends them to meet Meatman They meet
Meatman in the Ball in Hand Bar where he disappears then reappears. He
frequently uses a plural identity. The entire experience with Alonzo
Meatman is hallucinatory, paranoid, time-distorting and for a while
moves the chums in the opposite psychological direction from which
they have been moving. Instead of maturing toward independence, self
awareness and questioning, that is away from their fictiveness, they
become like members of the German Youth Movement and submit to a
juvenile groupthink losing their individuality .When they come to
themselves and find the Inconvenience and Pugnax. Meatman soon appears
and hands them the map called the Sfinciuno Itinerary.

As to the hallucinatory quality of Meatman and Candlebrow and the Ball
in Hand It reminded me of this from psychedelic highbrow headlight
researcher Terrance McKenna.
"And then, if you've taken enough DMT (and it has to do entirely with
physical capacity: Did you take, did you cross the threshold?)
something happens [clap]... for which there are no words. A membrane
is rent, and you are propelled into this "place." And language cannot
describe it - accurately. Therefore I will inaccurately describe it.

The rest is now lies. When you break into this space, you have several
impressions simultaneously that are a kind of gestalt: First of all
(and why, I don't know) you have the impression that you are
underground - far underground - you can't say why, but there's just
this feeling of immense weight above you but you're in a large space,
a vaulted dome. People even call it "The DMT dome" I have said, had
people say to me, "Have you been under the dome?" and I knew exactly
what they meant.

So you burst into this space. It's lit, socketed lighting, some kind
of indirect lighting you can't quite locate. But what is astonishing
and immediately riveting is that in this place there are entities -
there are these things, which I call "self transforming machine
elves," I also call them self-dribbling basketballs. They are, but
they are none of these things. I mean you have to understand: these
are metaphors in the truest sense, meaning they're lies! Uh, it's a
jeweled self-transforming basketball, a machine elf. I name them
'Tykes' because tyke is a word that means to me a small child, and I
was fascinated by the 54th fragment of Heraclitis, where he says: "The
Aeon is a child at play with colored balls" ... and when you burst
into the DMT space this is the Aeon - it's a child, and it's at play
with colored balls, and I am in eternity, apparently, in the presence
of this thing." Terrance McKenna

To move into a past without a more hopeful future isn't a very great
move. As our own future begins to look like that of the Trespassers
the past looks sweeter and progress a sour lie. In some sense we may
have to move toward our past to continue . Is that the message from
God that brings tears to Miles eyes?

In the end the chums, after meeting themselves in a strange time
warped mirror fail both , as Miles says "to "step'sidewise' into the
next dimension-into Time-our fate our lord, our destroyer", or as the
Tesla machine says to "jeapordize a perfect record of doing as you're
told" Sheep can fly, to after all. Can't they?

But how can they? they are characters from a book?

http://chumpsofchoice.blogspot.com/2007/04/busted-time-machines-and-harmonica.html