Don't put the bananas in the camera bag

[ish mailian]

modern pyramids

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-essential-guide-to-modern-pyramids

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 6:00 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Wow, some amazing info! Thanks!
>
> And speaking of pyramids, from the first link:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)#/media/File:Trinity_Site_Obelisk_National_Historic_Landmark.jpg
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> 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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