Word: elkins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...position he holds in British life (that of a well-to-do bourgeois with private passions locked firmly in the closet), while rejecting both the gay life or the commitments an observant Judaism would demand. What he loves are culture, (mostly refined) pleasure, and a bisexual named Bob Elkin...
...doesn't want to remarry (her previous marriage was, we take it, based solely on material agreements); she does want to keep her hand in the pool, hoping for a man who can give her the "whole loaf". She only gets half; she, too, falls in love with Elkin...
...kinetic sculptor. Bob Elkin is an uncomplicated boy who brings unfettered pleasure to both Greville and Hirsh, and becomes increasingly important to them. He is a free agent in society and character, and he acts like God's gift to lonely people. It is, indeed, his very irresponsibility--his sensitivity only to small things, to children and animals--which makes him so attractive to the two more interesting adults...
...Elkin is impervious to outside pressure. It therefore follows that he may love Alex and Daniel, and yet not care to the extent of living with them--of helping them approach their problems on their own level. He is able to flee in the end to New York City, where a new market has opened for his luxury commodities...
...suit geography, he evolves into part of American folklore. As Dick Gibson, the paradox of his truest identity is that he is from Nowhere, U.S.A. "Regionless my placeless vowels, my sourceless consonants," Gibson ululates into the silence and emptiness-the somber and pervasive background of life that is Elkin's real concern. Like Scheherazade, Gibson holds fate off with talk, "life-giving and meaningless and sweet as appetite...