VLVL2(4)(qq) Banana Pizza

[Mike Weaver]

Vince
 >Now I don't have
 > some Havabanana entry for you.  But based upon Mr.
 > Pynchon's banana fixation (remember the banana
 > breakfast in GR) ...

I seem to remember Swami Havabanana from Daevid Allen's Pot Head Pixie 
world. He and Kevin Ayers (both original members of Soft Machine) were both 
into banana referencing. Asked why KA said that Canterbury was the heart of 
the cornflake belt and you know how bananas go with cornflakes...

One of Daevid Allen's pen names was The Alien Banana. One of KA's albums 
was Bananamour.

 From http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~kunal/misc/quotes.txt and several others
The Ancient Doctrine of Mind Over Matter:
         I don't mind... and you don't matter.
                 -- As revealed to reporter G. Rivera by Swami Havabanana

Checking further I find my memory to be false - from 
http://www.planetgong.co.uk/
we have from the Gong history section:

"Whilst in Avignon they met up with a cheery Parisian flea market dealer 
called Bob Benamou, who had invited Gilli to stay at his house, in the 
grounds of which was Dr. Mishra's Ashram/ Retreat run by one Brahmananada - 
(a.k.a. Banana Ananda) an old friend from Paris days."
In the mythology he is described thus:

BANANA ANANDA   is the great beer yogi whose noble cry "have a lager" 
greets his disciples as they enter his primitive cave high up in the 
hymnalayas of tibet. his motto is "BANANA NIRVANA MANANA" a phrase worthy 
of many days deep contemplation on the many sided meanings inherent in its 
profundity. his teaching is that of meditations on the strongest spirits 
available. an upright hindoo sage of great magnetism, especially for the 
ladies.