Don't put the bananas in the camera bag

[ish mailian]

Bloat has the magic bananas in his kangaroo pouch, but he doesn't
understand the magic. His use of them, to soften the blow (G-load) to
his camera and to snuff out the sound that might expose him is
countered by the amazing power of the fruit. He fears the aroma will
hang in the cubicle and he thinks to counter it with a fag.

Not sure, but I suspect that the building, not on any guidebook, the
Germans, Japanese tourists might consult, is a Pynchon profane/sacred
space. So the pyramids seem a threshold (Eliade) and Teddy Bloat
unaware of the struggle within. At the Chemical level the bananas are
allied with Slothrop and girls; the make love not war idea (Hite,
Counterculture, subversive fun, Marcuse) and the fag and its smoke are
allied with the men and their aura.

In August 1945, shortly after the bombing of Hiroshima, the Kodak
Company observed spottingand fogging on their film, which was at that
time usually packaged in cardboard containers. Dr. J. H. Webb, a Kodak
employee, studied the matter and concluded that the contamination must
have come from a nuclear explosion somewhere in the United States. He
discounted the possibility that the Hiroshima bomb was responsible due
to the timing of the events. A hot spot of fallout contaminated the
river water that the paper mill in Indiana used to manufacture the
cardboard pulp from corn husks. Aware of the gravity of his discovery,
Dr. Webb kept this secret until 1949.

This incident along with the next continental US tests in 1951 set a
precedent. In subsequent atmospheric nuclear tests at the Nevada test
site, United States Atomic Energy Commission officials gave the
photographic industry maps and forecasts of potential contamination,
as well as expected fallout distributions, which enabled them to
purchase uncontaminated materials and take other protective measures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)

A banana equivalent dose (BED) is an informal expression of ionizing
radiation exposure, intended as a general educational example to
indicate the potential dose due to naturally occurring radioactive
isotopes by eating one average-sized banana.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose

Tobacco and its smoke contain lead-210(210Pb) and polonium-210
(210Po), radioactive carcinogens.

http://imgur.com/gallery/wegKg
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