“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.”
“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.”
“I banana the softest banana in the world; it's a new game, seeing just how soft I can banana while still banana-ing.”
“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.”