VL p.234 Why 'chocolate-covered bananas?

[Mark Kohut]

Great connection find. I had no memory of it. As I wrote about Doug's late GR banana find, one must keep rereading TRP if one can't memorize all the books!

Crystalline is a NOT GOOD in P's vision so this is "why" a frozen banana is
"horrible" as Chiquita Banana always sez.....

And sawdust.....

Thanx,

mark

--- On Tue, 9/1/09, John Fu <maarakthai at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Fu <maarakthai at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: VL p.234 Why 'chocolate-covered bananas?
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 5:31 AM
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>  
> Howie arrives at
> Rex's place in Vineland page 234 -
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> "In the far
> corner  of the freezer he found a chocolate-covered
> banana from Hermosa Beach, all crystalline with undefrosted
> snow, and wandered back in" . . .
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> 
> . . .
> ""Weed is an FBI plant," Frenesi told
> him" . . .
> 
>  
> 
>  . . .
> "Howie got instant dry mouth, and the frozen
> banana turned to sawdust.  The glitter eyed
> absence of humor in the room drew into its vacuum and
> down over his cringing soul the cold certainty that they
> weren't fooling."
> 
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> 
> Do all those
> thermodynamics going on here key into the TRP ting with
> entropy ?
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> > Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:11:04 -0400
> > Subject: Re: IVIV Why 'chocolate-covered bananas?
> p.22
> > From: jpfkelly at gmail.com
> > To: markekohut at yahoo.com
> > CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > 
> > Apart from the obvious reasons for TRP to choose the
> banana, my mind
> > went straight to the television show Arrested
> Development when I came
> > across this particular dish in the book. There were
> other instances in
> > which I thought Tommy was alluding to the show, from
> the chocolate
> > bananas to the housing units and what not, among
> others. The show does
> > a better job of explaining itself than I ever could,
> and provides
> > surprising lucidity and conciseness despite the many
> superficually
> > superfluous tangents and tirades. It's also an
> uproarious satire.
> > 
> > http://the-op.com/
> > 
> > is an AD fan site. it's no AtD wiki, lemmie tell
> ya.
> > 
> > or you can just watch the show itself.
> > 
> > http://www.hulu.com/arrested-development
> > 
> > too far fetched? probably. good grief (cue
> 'christmas time is here
> > again' as i walk away slowly with my head down).
> 
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