Don't put the bananas in the camera bag

[Joseph Tracy]

Total agreement with Laura. Just mindbending information.
> On Apr 3, 2016, at 6:00 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> -----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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