IVIV Why 'chocolate-covered bananas? p.22

[David Morris]

Right.  Bigfoot's chocolate-covered banana is his post anal-rape
baton, but in a funny way.

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Tore Rye Andersen<torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> David Morris:
>
>> 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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