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

[Mark Kohut]

In Life Against Death, Norman O. Brown's work that influenced TRP a lot in writing GR, he uses the phrase "polymorphous perversity"......

with both words having positive meaning.....

--- On Wed, 1/27/10, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: IV: a time and place when one's sex orientation did not need  declared
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 10:22 AM
> 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.
> 
>