A Few Thoughts on Pynchon After a Rereading of the Slow Learner Introduction

[Dave Monroe]

On 12/17/07, Roman Kudryashov <rkudryashov at gmail.com> wrote:

> ... Pynchon explicitly states that he used his own life and
> experiences and just changed everything about them to make them
> unrecognizable, unless they were obscure to begin with....

"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."

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_biography.html