Don't put the bananas in the camera bag

[Joseph Tracy]

 Is it possible that Bloat as a spy on the reasonably innocent soul of Slothrop,  that Bloat, representing  the invasive control mechanisms of the Firm, along with transgressing the presumed solidarity of the war effort, is also entering a sacred space, a cosmos where he doesn’t belong and being reminded of his taint by the banana chemistry, but also by something in the star map itself. Even a shlemieI has something of god to be reckoned with. I agree that the bananas are a life force, and Bloat has allied himself with a colder mechanism, but he is still human and still a bit torn.

The chemical downwind and downstream, of the nuclear or currently fracking technological secrecy and nondisclosure is the macrocosm of a presumption with very personal roots.

> On Apr 3, 2016, at 4:11 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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