GRGR Goes Bananas

[Chris Carne]

A coupla prosaic comments:

One of the significant things about bananas was that they were not
available during the war in Britain.

So we may see Prentice's banana plantation as a counterforce against
the banana cartel - prefiguring his later rebellion against the rocket
cartel.

No one, I think has mentioned the well known popular song of the era, of
which I can only recall the first two lines.

'Let's all go down The Strand,
(Have a bana-na)'

Unfortunately the tune don't really fit Pynchons verse. 



TTFN

Chris

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