Pirate's Banana Joints

[Mark Kohut]

And Southern climate warmth (vs. Northern cold) and Melville's breadfruit,
and the peoples not caught in the Protestant Ethic yet
colonialized---basically one huge American company in Latin America
supplied all of Pirates' bananas, another buried Western capitalism
critique a..and the pleasure of
eating a penis-shaped fruit, perhaps mindfully.  So to speak.

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 2:09 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't disagree, but a deeper meaning is the bounty of waste, fecundity,
> Mother Earth.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:57 PM Jade Becker <jbecker13 at georgefox.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I'm in the middle of Danny Goldberg's *In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967
>> and the Hippie Idea*, and he describes the false story that circulated
>> in 1967 about how "people could get high scraping the inside of banana
>> peels, boiling the residue, drying it, rolling the resulting 'bananadine'
>> into a joint, and smoking it." The myth became so prevalent--in part
>> because of LSD users who smoked 'bananadine' while already high (and thus
>> believed it heightened the effect)--that Congressman Frank Thompson started
>> rallying for the Banana Labelling Act, a piece of legislation that would
>> require bananas to be labeled with warning stickers like cigarettes. The
>> FDA had eventually come out and confirm that bananas contained no
>> hallucinogenic effects.
>>
>> This was news to me (youngster that I am), and it brought Pirate's banana
>> breakfasts to mind. I haven't been able to re-read that section of *GR *yet,
>> but I wouldn't be surprised if Pynchon were riffing on the banana-smoking
>> phenomenon in some way or another.
>>
>
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