“a synonym for ‘insane’ is ‘bananas”
“He was on the verge on insanity with one foot on a banana peel...”
“Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose name was synonymous with colonial exploitation and the rapacious ruin of the third world.”
“I banana the softest banana in the world; it's a new game, seeing just how soft I can banana while still banana-ing.”
“Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.”
“And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.”