ABSTRACT
In a then notorious homosexual novel of 1953, The Heart in Exile-whose pink spine was a crucial signifier in those treasonable times-Rodney Garland’s hero visits the Lord Barrymore and falls, as one will, into reverie:
The young were living mostly in exile, but exile gave them possibilities of which they had seldom dreamed before. Everything around them became slightly abnormal, the new occupation, the environment, the dress they wore, the physical and emotional climate. The concrete things of the past, like postal-addresses, time-tables, road-signs, became less probable and friendships became all-important because it was unlikely that they would last. Nearly all of them, willingly or unwillingly, became creatures of the moment, living in an everlasting present; the past had vanished, the future was uncertain.1
