BE Ch 9 summary - Chunky Monkey

[Mark Kohut]

YES!    and better meanings !   i can be too earnest sometimes; Morris
catches the comic, the ESSENTIAL pynchon.

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 12:55 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Other reasons Pynchon might like to include bananas in his novels:
>
> 1.  They look sorta like penises, especially when they’re in your pocket,
> or when eaten in a suggestive manner.
>
> 2.  Monkeys eat them in comical fashion.
>
> 3.  People have been known to slip and fall (comically) on their peels.
>
> 4.  When made into a cream pie, they are funny when smooshed into
> someone’s face.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 12:36 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> >
>> > > On Dec 16, 2021, at 10:53 AM, David Elliott via Pynchon-l <
>> > pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > 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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