Pynchon’s Layers Statement

[David Morris]

Skimming the interaction between Joe & Allen, I see Joe refer to a
statement by Pynchon about his layers of writing:

Joe:  “As you know, because the story, I’m fairly certain, came from your
[Quail’s] and web page, Pynchon once compared his writing to one of those
medical texts with overlappable transparent layers.”

Then Joe lays out a 3 layer structure in Pynchon’s writing.  This caught my
attention because just this week a guy  in the Reddit group ATD read (in
which I’m participating) proposed his own 3 layer structure that seems
nearly identical to what Joe proposed.  So this 3 layer idea seems to be
floating around the internet now, and I’m curious about where it came from,
and what Pynchon said about his own use of layers in his writing.

So, Big Quail, can you send a link, or just send the whole thing to this
list?  I’m sorta shocked that I’d never seen it in all my years reading
Pynchon. Clearly I didn’t dig through the Spermatikos Logos pages deep
enough back in the day.