bananafish

When he is on the beach with the little girl he tells her a cautionary tale about underwater creatures called bananafish, who crawl into holes where they gorge themselves on bananas and get so enlarged that they cannot get out again, and die.)

Justice to J.D. Salinger Malcolm, Janet 2001

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A sad day for bananafish 2010

Eibmoz says: and here I thought today was a perfect day for bananafish.

J.D. SALINGER HATES INDY, STILL ALIVE 2008

One is the little girl in "Bananafish," who says "Hey!" when Seymour impulsively kisses the arch of her foot, after she says that she saw a bananafish.

Justice to J.D. Salinger Malcolm, Janet 2001

From the fairytale-like story Seymour tells Sybil, a young girl he meets on the beach, about bananafish who eat so many bananas that they cannot get out of the banana hole they have swum into, we can guess that Seymour found himself trapped in a bad marriage from which he could see no escape.

The Guardian World News 2009

for pari bananafish, snowflakes women who drink the lives of painters & shortstops butlers who ignore me an irish sweater, ordinary white a frozen river women named gabriella a low cut little black dress on which my watery eyes linger lunches on red checked tablecloths in chelsea talcum powder of a morning brie, dark chocolate, yellow apples, wood-handled knives you, barelegged slinging off shoes

addicted to a few things Gary Percesepe 2011

“It’s a perfect day for bananafish,” I said to him in parting.

Generous Death Nancy Pickard 1987

“It’s a perfect day for bananafish,” I said to him in parting.

Generous Death Nancy Pickard 1987