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

[rich]

If Inherent Vice is about anything, it's about the time and place where
> Gravity's Rainbow was written.
________
that may be so and valuable in some way, but if that's the true worth
of the book then one can't help to feel let down

and Robin, man I love ya but u gotta drop you had to be there quip.
Never felt Pynchon was that sort of insider type of writer, you know.
we have too many artists nudging and winking to those "in the know"

Weimar Germany was very much the same in terms of loose sex, gender
bending, political upheaval, etc. Puck would've made a good candidate
for the SA