Ha hah “I’m a believer”….it all fits.
Monkey Neal it is….here’s some weird speculation. So I wanted to look up monkeys in fairy tales, just for kicks because I knew I’d heard of one. There’s the ancient chinese legends of the Monkey King. http://people.wku.edu/haiwang.yuan/China/tales/monkey.html “To make surethat the monk can make for the West to get the Sutras, Buddha has arranged for Monkey King to become the monk’s escort in the capacity of his disciple. soon on their way to the west, two more disciples, also at the will of the Buddha, join their company. One is the humorous and not uncourageous pig transgressed from an inebrious celestial general for his assault against a fairy; the other a sea monster who also used to be a celestial general now in exile for a misdemeanor. I had to laugh…a drunk former officer who assaulted a fairy ….sound like anyone?
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass