There is little point going over ground already covered. Some subjects have little scope for reflection or renewal..
Peeling a banana may be one of those subjects.
Having said that, I have noticed I think quite a lot about how I peel the banana which I would like to explore.
On the one hand (sic), I attempt to peel the banana perfectly. On the other, I try to peel the banana a new way every day.
We are modelled in our peeling technique by the monkey. They hold the banana in one hand and apply the ‘peel and rotate until peeled’ technique, which leaves the peel in a hilt over the hand.
This is deeply unsatisfying. Not only do we (temporarily) lose a hand in the process of eating the banana, but also, we are obliged to eat the banana as if it had a top and a bottom and a first and last bite.
The first bite though, is similar to the last. There is no first and last bite, when the first can easily be last and vice versa. The banana needs to have its nature represented accurately.
I peel the banana by cutting the stalk end with a knife. This reduces bruising the end of the banana. I peel down until the flesh of the banana is exposed and then I peel it back towards the normal eating end. This produces not a petal the monkey makes, but a double the length of the banana peel. This is then folded back again to make which it three times the banana’s length. This can be discarded easily, in one part.
Through this technique, I reveal the banana as fully three dimensionally realised.
Its shape is liberated from not having a beginning and an end. It can be now be eaten any which way.
The monkey technique does provide an inbuilt napkin to keep the fingers from becoming sticky. Sticky fingers though is preferable to subservience.
Getting to the truth involves removing the covers, to best reveal what is hidden by the covers. In the instance of peeling the banana, the intension is to maximise the pleasure of the eating.