CH 15 the hard on

[Robin Landseadel]

On Nov 22, 2009, at 5:45 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Some of the relationships, some of the sex in IV, are indicative of  
> TRPs extensive use of (often unhealthy) sex in GR as metaphor? That  
> is, the seemingly real sex in IV is an allusion, so to speak in our  
> allusive way, to sex as insight in GR?

Inherent Vice captures the vibe and a lot of quotidian details of life  
in L.A. in the early seventies. A lot of what I witnessed back then  
could be filed up "The Sexual Revolution," what with the pill making  
it easier to be sleazier—lots of casual hook-ups and disconnections. A  
lot of the sex in GR strikes me as reflecting sexual activity in L.A.,  
circa 1970. The scene with Doc 'n Luz in the abandoned apartment  
complex with jets flying low overhead is similar to scenes of coitus  
in GR where V-2's are dropping all over London. Scenes of S & M  
rendered in an explicit fashion in GR are set offstage in IV—we are  
present to witness the scars but not the scarring. With Doc as IV's  
semi-omniscient eye I'd gather that TRP heard of and collected tales  
of S & M second-hand. But that's merely conjecture.