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Topic of the Week 2/07: Did Ennis and Jack kiss at all up on Brokeback?

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Brown Eyes:
The whole description of the dozy embrace is very complex... it's hard to articulate all the things that the memory for Jack may mean.  The phrase "artless charmed happiness" is interesting in the context of the question of kissing or the desire to kiss.  I've come to understand Jack's fondness for that memory to mean something having to do with the concept of non-sexual love or affection.  In a way, if Jack had turned into Ennis for a kiss it would contradict that idea immediately (regardless of whether it would have been acceptable to Ennis).  I think of Jack remembering that moment as the first sign that Ennis's emotions or their emotions for one another were much deeper than just physical lust.  I don't know how to interpret the word "single" in that it seems odd that moments like that wouldn't come up in their later years as the relationship progressed.  Maybe the "single" really does mainly apply to the Brokeback summer.

It's a very complicated passage and scenario.  :-\

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