VL p.234 Why 'chocolate-covered bananas?

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.....

Crystals

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/extra/crystal.html

The Crystal Palace

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/extra/crystal-palace.html

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