VL p.234 Why 'chocolate-covered bananas?

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:31 AM, John Fu<maarakthai at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Howie arrives at Rex's place in Vineland page 234 -
>
> "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"
.>
> . . . ""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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