skeleton with layers

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

What occured to me was the shifting spectra of atomic weights as you move up on Mendeleev's table of elements, moving upwards towards elements with half-lifes well under a nanosecond. There's a very interesting book on the development of the Hydrogen Bomb by John McFee entitled; "Curve of Binding Energy", working in a similar direction.

http://www.webelements.com/
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From: Joseph T <brook7 at sover.net>
>    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.
>