BE Ch 9 summary - Chunky Monkey

[Mark Kohut]

I think it is also more than that he likes them, which he probably does.
Almost everyone does, right?
Some speculative glossing: ...Very nutritious.
"The scientific name for banana is Musa, from the Musaceae family of
flowering tropical plants, which distinctively showcases the banana fruit
clustered at the top of the plant. The mild-tasting and disease-resistant
Cavendish type is the main variety sold in the U.S. and Europe. Despite
some negative attention, bananas are nutritious and may even carry the
title of the first “superfood
<https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/superfoods/>,” endorsed by
the American Medical Association in the early 20th century as a health food
for children and a treatment for celiac disease."

Cold countries are not the best places to live in Pynchon's world, and as
with Ice even as a name, Pynchon gives cold and North the old
symbolic meanings
in so much literature since before Shakespeare....
Warm countries are the better countries, friendly, habitable, etc.
And bananas unite us to our animal cousins.

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 11:07 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Like bananas myself, even organic bananas are way cheap and good in
> smoothies especially with homegrown peaches from the freezer. Maybe the
> whole Pynchon connection is less cerebral than I think; perhaps a deeper
> level  is more operative.
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> > On Dec 16, 2021, at 10:53 AM, David Elliott via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
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> > Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey. Another banana reference. We have them in
> GR and IV. Isn’t there a banana reference in M&D? It might be an ingredient
> in a food Mason and/or Dixon eats but not explicitly mentioned? I don’t
> remember. Any other banana references in the other novels?Anyway, Thomas
> Pynchon must like bananas. That’s my deep contribution to the read. Just
> wanted to take it to another level.
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