VV (5) - Hothouse

[David Morris]

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"unbelievable black topsoil in which anything could grow, not the least 
being bananas. Pirate, driven to despair by the wartime banana shortage, 
decided to build a glass hothouse on the roof, and persuade a friend who 
flew the Rio-to-Ascension-to-Fort-Lamy run to pinch him a sapling banana 
tree or two [...] Pirate has become famous for his Banana Breakfasts" 5


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461; king of Ithaca and hero of Homer's Odyssey, the great voyage tale of 
the ancient world. The Odyssey tells the tale of Odysseus' return home from 
the Trojan War. He encounters, among other things, a Cyclops (there are a 
number of one-eyed ones in V., including V. herself), the great witch Circe, 
Scylla and Charybdis (as difficult a navagation as the Hothouse and the 
Street), the Sirens, and the underworld (journeys to which are often 
undertaken in V. ). He eventually gets back to Ithaca and his wife Penelope 
who has been fending off numerous suitors. See also Charybdis; Nausicaä; 
Scylla




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