VLVL2(4)(qq) Banana Pizza

[Dave Monroe]

Cf. not only ...

"Time to gather your arse up off the floor,
(have a bana-na)
Brush your teeth and go toddling off to war.
Wave your hand to sleepy land,
Kiss those dreams away,
Tell Miss Grable you're not able,
Not till V-E Day, oh,
Ev'rything'll be grand in Civvie Street
(have a bana-na)
Bubbly wine and girls wiv lips so sweet--
But there's still the German or two to fight,
So show us a smile that's shiny bright,
And then, as we may have suggested once before--
Gather yer blooming arse up off the floor!" (GR, Pt.
I, pp. 8-9 )

But also ...

"'Have a banana,' tuba player with his mouth full has
a good-sized bunch stowed in the bell of his ax." 
(GR, Pt. III, p. 506 )

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/extra/bananas.html

Further ...

"... unbelievable black topsoil in which anything
could grow, not the least being bananas."  (GR, Pt. I,
p. 5)

"Zoyd, unfortunately, despite the best efforts of the
chanting of Baba Havabananda and his followers (music
against death as surely, perhaps, as the car rock and
surf rock is music in adoration of that lovely
adolescent Death), has no charm against the smashing
of his house."

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9810&msg=32047&sort=date

p. 52 "Baba Havabananda" = have a banana. Groucho Marx
meets Swami Satchidananda at R. Crumb's?

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/chapter4.htm

Not only ...

http://www.integralyogasf.org/swami.htm

http://www.yogaville.org/

But also ...

http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/crumb/crumb.html

http://www.crumbproducts.com/

http://www.crumbmuseum.com/

--- "Vincent A. Maeder" <vmaeder at cycn-phx.com> wrote:
> "The saintly night manager, who called himself Baba
> Havabananda" (VL, Ch. 4, p. 52) Now I don't have
> some Havabanana entry for you.  But based upon Mr.
> Pynchon's banana fixation (remember the banana
> breakfast in GR) ...

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