VL p.234 Why 'chocolate-covered bananas?

[Mark Kohut]

Crystal, by the way, as a dystopian symbol goes back (at least) to Zamyatin's WE brilliantly.

--- On Tue, 9/1/09, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: VL p.234 Why 'chocolate-covered bananas?
> To: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org, "John Fu" <maarakthai at hotmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 11:48 AM
> Plus, as JIm Morrison always sez, in
> The Crystal Ship, before you slip
> into unconsciousness:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Ship
> 
> ...a-and, see the passage between Lemuria and Mt. Shasta.
>