GRGR alternate pathway for Pirate / moral status of the bananas

[Cometman]

jporter wrote:
>What would have happened if Pirate had been able to quell
>his abomination of the derelict and somehow interact long
>enough with him to learn something about himself, and his
>talent, maybe even learn to control it on his own, instead of
>seeking the comforting embrace of Them?

aha, reuniting with the preterite, with the rejected (the stone the
builders rejected) - great idea!  Something Joyce's and Pynchon's work 
does by daring to use non-canonical literary language, for instance.

It might have been good for the tramp, too.

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the bananas - if he went to the store, and walked through a picket line
to buy bananas labeled "non-union, toxic pesticide-imbued,
rainforest-destroying, aborigine-supplanting, genetically-modified,
third-world-exploiting"; 
or if instead of climbing to the rooftop garden he stepped out on his
veranda, flourishing his sjambok, and ordered his butler to whip the
slave while eating his banana breakfast (cooked over clear-cut forested
mahogany wood charcoal)
- yes, then the bananas would be tainted
- but the banana saplings, ah
perhaps they were stolen from an evil plantation, or grown on the sly
in some underpaid peon's backyard and sold in the black market to pay
for his family's needs 
they were bought with a camera acquired (probably purloined from some
minion of evil) while working with the Underground against a fascist
system; they were nurtured with love; they are not evil