IV: a time and place when one's sex orientation did not need declared

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jan 27, 2010, at 7:03 AM, rich wrote:

> and what is a gay book really?

I'd say that if it's written by Armistead Maupin, it's a "Gay" book.

But lets skip that detour for a moment. What I was trying to point out  
was that L.A. in the late sixties/early seventies was a pretty gender- 
bent place. "I guess you had to be there" as Janis Ian always sez.  
Interesting that one of the more notable examples of this gender  
confusion is the not-so-cute meet of Trillium and Puck—Puck's "true  
love", jail bunk buddy and vocal duet partner Einar in tow—with its  
various echos of the Renaissance Faire circa late sixties/early  
seventies. I would say the gender blur of Gravity's Rainbow reflects  
the gender blur of the time and place were and when it was written.

If Inherent Vice is about anything, it's about the time and place  
where Gravity's Rainbow was written.