GRGR - Banana breakfast

Ghetta Life ghetta_outta at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 2 11:57:52 CST 2005


But the bananas and the breakfast DO materialize.  And they form w 
wonderfully rich comic relief from the dread of the opening.  What more 
could you ask for?  It is significant that the medium for the appearance of 
the bananas is the composted waste gathering for years on the roof of a 
mansion in semi-ruin from an earlier era.  The hope (life) springs from 
destrucion/decay - anti-entropy.

Ghetta

>From: kelber at mindspring.com
>
>The banana breakfast, with its impossible litany of foods prepared by 
>Pirate, is a signal that the hoped-for reality (waking from the dream) 
>isn't going to materialize.  Pirate's desperate attempt to counterpose a 
>humanized phallus (banana as comfort food) against the rocket phallus?  The 
>banana breakfast resistance includes American/Belgian waffles, bananas 
>molded into the British lion, bananas flambe and, most noticeably, Jewish 
>kreplach -- a culinary missle counterattack.

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