ATDTDA 6 funny food / why beavers?

[Dave Monroe]

--- mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:

> why "beavers of the brain"?  the cyclopropane has
> turned his thought process inward upon itself,
> and he experiences it as "beavers of the brain" -
> I ask myself, why beavers? ...

Cf. ...

Jeremy Beaver (GR, p.36 et al.)

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/b.html

http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_29-37#Page_36

"Kastoranthropy" (M&D, pp. 619-22)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0207&msg=68619

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0207&msg=68623

"Beaver Bourguignon ..." (M&D, p. 383)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0207&msg=68620

And see as well ...

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_171-198#Page_183

> there's also a reference to a "banana bond" among
> the carbon molecules - shades of the "banana
> breakfast" in GR?

Indubitably, but also more immediately ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_bond


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