Don't put the bananas in the camera bag

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Wow, some amazing info! Thanks!

And speaking of pyramids, from the first link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)#/media/File:Trinity_Site_Obelisk_National_Historic_Landmark.jpg

LK


-----Original Message-----
>From: ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 3, 2016 4:11 PM
>To: Pynchon-l <Pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Don't put the bananas in the camera bag
>
>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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