IVIV Why 'chocolate-covered bananas? p.22

Richard Fiero rfiero at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 13:22:44 CDT 2009


János Székely wrote:
>1. Re the banana cult: if it's not under spoiler embargo now, I'd like
>to join Tore's obs with my suspicion that IV here (on 140), with its
>special reference to "banana molecules" (cf. banana DNS) contains
>another key to another apparently surrealistic feature of GR.
>2. Which reminds me of another cult fruit from that age: does anyone
>know where the Warhol banana on the cover of 'The Velvet Underground
>and Nico' comes from?
>  . . .

Probably unconnected is "White Light/White Heat" 1968.

There is the Benzidine/Benzedrine pun on pg 31.
The whole thing makes me kind of jumpy.





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