skeleton with layers

[Joseph T]

   On the Spermatikos Logos website there is an account by Bruce  
Owens of his acquaintance with Pynchon while living in Manhattan  
Beach CA , writing GR. He quotes something TP said to this effect:  
"You know, Bruce, those high school biology texts with centerfold  
transparencies, first the skeleton, and then the muscles...well this  
is the technique I use for writing."
   I 've been considering that in a very literal relation to my own  
work with glass as an art form. Any thoughts on the credibility of  
the Owens story?

Also... I floated this thought earlier without response so I though  
I'd try2  again. Anyone ever suggest that along with all the other  
implications of the phrase, that "gravity's rainbow" could describe  
Oil with its rainbow sheen and coal-tars turned to color dyes.  Oil  
is the product of Gravity and Life. The fast forward rocket  fuel and  
Pandora's box of the 19th and 20th Century.