Picking Bananas
I'm (finally) reading Thomas Pynchon's Gravity Rainbow over the holiday break.
With paragraphs like these, how could I resist?...
"Pirate has become famous for his Banana Breakfasts. Messmates throng here from all over England, even some who are allergic our outright hostile to bananas, just to watch - for the politics of bacteria, the soil's stringing of rings and chains in nets only God can tell the meshes of, have seen the fruit thrive often to lengths of a foot and a half, yes amazing but true."
760 pages of that.
Good stuff.
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