Banana CoupA Story by penhiveThe Banana Coup is a deconstruction of crime genre. It is laden with satire and ridiculeIn
the curfew ridden Mandala City, patrolling office Mendez Gomez reads the
popular mirror: “Banana coup deflated heroically. Conspirators of the banana
coup arrested and their Eco -friendly uniforms confiscated. Democratic
loyalists also get imprisoned. Supporting middle men and women taken into
preventive custody. Leader
of the Banana Coup Middle Deuce flees the scene of the crime, camouflaged by
environment friendly uniform, being concealed in the gigantic human- beard
hedge of the hotel Oriental Peninsula. City
Mandala placed under curfew.” The remote, handled by the lone cop on duty,
opened the television effortlessly to the interview on Banana Coup hosted by
the TV channel Musk Citadel. Ms
Moses Hillary Lake-view interviews the prominent political scientist Dr.
Prometheus Bacon. Ms. Moses Hillary Lake view: “Well Dr. Prometheus Bacon, why
would the coup be characterized as a Banana Coup? The term I remember was
media-padded into frosted lexicon after its reference became associated with
the cult text on Political Scientology. Dr. Prometheus Bacon grins into a
traditional Lexi-university smile and then balloons his ample squeaky cheeks
into a guffaw. The few hairs on his hair challenged head rise up rhapsodically.
Then in his husky baritone he intoned:” The Banana Coup is named after a
cocktail of events which cajoled to a resurrection in political circuits. The
following elements within the coup make it a Banana Coup. (a) Zero bloodiness
or survival carnival. (b) Media-pulation (c) Machiavellian- blockbustering.”
Ms. Moses Hillary Lake view’s face blooms to a surprising consternation with a
widespread egalitarian smile, and she chirps in:” Dr. Prometheus Bacon you are
a maverick of media suitability. By all means expand these nano-political
interjections and inflate them with content-elastic and detailed
enlightenment.” Dr. Prometheus Bacon: “Ms. Moses Hillary Lake view, you are a
fair weather troubadour of persuasive-olotry. Let the keyhole terms be
transmuted into hoodwinking figs. Zero bloodiness or nonviolent carnival
resembled the coupists. The coupists wearing Eco-freindly uniform were Govt.
conscious and dizzydent conscious. Only a single tank was used to eject the
dizzydent coupists who were merely hide-and seeking in hotel Oriental Peninsula.
The tank that rammed into the wall of the Oriental peninsula damaged only a
portion of it and thus created an exquisite architecture of post modernism
whose use to thwart and capture the coupists will be iconized into the annals
of historical monuments. Thus in the process of deflating the coup, a
minimalism of rubble and fragments became visible illuminations of a great
historical spectacle. Ms. Moses Hillary Lake view, ” By all means this has
created a political structure, one of defused politics where the plot itself
underwent a series of captivated suspense with each moment becoming a saga of
reality. Saying this she smiles slyly at Dr. Prometheus bacon and remarks:
“Please enunciate your reminder term: Media-pulation.”, Dr. Prometheus expounds,
” Media-pulation within the Banana Coup has attained the heights of permissive
sanction. Each stage of the coup was media-reminded to the live audience having
only a civilian conscience. Media-pulation worked as an extrasensory apparatus,
translating the intentions of the not so sure coupists who at each stage were
anticipating dizzydent mass support. The Govt. conscious loyalists were also
waiting to show their loyalties in either ways. Thus I proclaim Media-Pulation
as a buzz word” and motions a slap into the air. A scared mosquito escapes
deliriously. Ms. Moses Hillary Lake view gives a sly wink and smiley frown and
pauses and then gushes melodiously: ” You are right there. Media-pulation will
find its glasnost of working in many actions similar to the Banana Coup. You
are a word snatcher, you notorious. Prometheus Bacon. And may I ask you what is
meant by Machiavellian blockbustering?” Dr. Prometheus Bacon makes a whizzing
sound and then rumbles, ” At every stage of the Banana Coup, the coupists and the
coup thwarters were anticipating the reaction of the public in terms of
exercising profound loyalties. By Media-pulation they created a series of
glasnost plots depending on whose side the public would take. Media-Pulated
discourse of public silence swung the Eco-friendly loyalists to thwart the coup
staged by the Eco-friendly dizzydents. Ms. Moses Hillary Lake view shouts
suddenly: “Our time is up.” She does a somersault and Prometheus Bacon is taken
aback. She removes her impeccable tweeds and reveals an Eco-friendly uniform.
She says to Dr. Prometheus Bacon: ” You have disproved your loyalties to the
Banana Coupists. Here take this, you! She starts pummeling him with an over
sized Banana. Dr. Prometheus Bacon is utterly shocked and is at a loss to understand
why the identity of Middle Deuce turned out to be Ms. Moses Hillary Lake view.
Dr. Prometheus Bacon falls flat on the lawn grass in front of the studio. The
curtains close and the TV scrawls in italics: “You have been watching a Banana
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1 Review Added on February 19, 2021 Last Updated on February 19, 2021 Tags: Banana Coup, Postmodern fiction, Short Story, Fiction AuthorpenhivePathnamthitta, Kerala, IndiaAboutI am a Hellenic Philistine, an existential nihilist, a postmodern enthusiast, and I ontologize my being into religions of Christianity and Judaism with the being of an apologist. more..Writing
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