Dan ignores Sam. Dan is betrayed and angry and Sam feels shitty.
timeline
Sam and Steve move from flop house to flop house
Sam had been introduced around SF’s literary world by Golden Era editor Joe Lawrence but Sam doesn’t fit in with the bohemian dandy homosexual heavy crowd of artistes and fashionistas obsessed with modernity. http://www.jstor.org/pss/2928029
Orion is passed over for a promotion
Governor James Nye, becomes Senator and takes many staff to Washington D.C. with him. Not Clements.