Bananas Foster Wallace

“Bananas are one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties — all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name’s Banana and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Bananas, masterbation, ice cream, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, eating ticks — these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”—Bananas Foster Wallace