IVIV Why 'chocolate-covered bananas? p.22

[Tore Rye Andersen]

David Morris:
 
> But when I think of a cop holding a chocolate-covered frozen banana, 
> it registers as a big erection covered in you-know-what, but in a 
> comic way. And Bigfoot is a symbol of authority: a dick.
 
As long as we're throwing around the Koarse Korrespondences, a, uh, 
friend of mine told me that those chocolate-covered bananas reminded 
him of this bit from GR (from Pudding's nightly adventures):
 
"He leans forward to surround the hot turd with his lips, sucking on it
tenderly, licking along its lower side... he is thinking, he's sorry, 
he can't help it, thinking of a Negro's penis, yes he knows it abrogates
part of the conditions set, but it will not be denied, the image of a
brute African who will make him behave..." (GR, 235)
 
- which of course echoes Slothrop's fantasy of the men's room at the
Roseland Ballroom (esp. p. 64), and also echoes Doc's departing quip 
to the two FBI agents in IV:
 
"I know that the Director has a thing about spade penises, and I sure
hope you find Mickey before any of that cell-block stuff starts 
happening." (IV, 75)
 
I apologize for the bad taste of my friend's associations. OTOH, Pynchon
DID write those things, so...

 
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