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Lookin for the handle
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 07, 2009, 08:30:10 pm ---These obscene Goddesses described by her heal through sexual/sensual means. One is Baubo, the ancient Greek Goddess of Obscenity or the Belly Goddess. Another one is named Coyote Dick. And I think a contemporary person who should go in this category is our dear Annie Proulx.
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Interesting idea, FRiend!
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Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: belbbmfan on January 11, 2008, 09:08:29 am ---
I thought that the image of the handle reflect Ennis's lack of having 'something/someone to hold on to' in his life. Isn't Ennis holding more handles in his hand when he's around Jack (he drinks the whiskey holding the cup by the handle telling Jack about how he ended up there, he's holding the saw when they're setting up camp).
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This was a perceptive observation that you made a year ago, friend. I'd like to take it up again...by the handle! It's interesting that early in their friendship, Jack pours whiskey into Ennis' cup and then Ennis picks it up by the handle. Later, they just swap the handleless bottle together, not caring if their hands touch while passing it back and forth.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 30, 2008, 02:02:29 pm ---I just had a bolt of lightning hit me about the last metaphor in the story, where the spoon handle is jutting out of the can of beans "with an air of comic obscenity." It happened after I woke up from a dream where some things were pictured like cartoons...a television remote, a car, and a drainpipe. They sort of glowed like black lights and had a black outline around them. I realized that these things were not pictured that way to make fun of them or put them down, it was because they were symbolic icons, like drawings on the walls of primitive native caves and temples. What Annie Proulx is doing here is creating or advancing an iconography, and emulating in prose what the artists she admires, like Richard Prince, did for the cowboy, the West, and now our own private story.
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This was a prophetic dream that I had that came true. It haunts me still. In the dream, I was preparing to show a video about Brokeback Mountain to an assembled audience. There was a big monitor on a stage, but I couldn't get it to work. I realized I needed to have a remote to operate it, and I had left the remote at the hotel room I was staying at. I went back to the room and retrieved the remote, and then I set out in my rental car, an ancient white Honda, for the hall. But part way there, I got stuck. I was going over a bridge, and I got high-centered over a big white drainpipe. Since my car wouldn't go, I got out and stepped gingerly over the boards of the bridge. I could look down and see the drainpipe below and rushing water under the bridge. But I made it to the hall with my remote, and presumably showed the video. Now, this dream seems pretty routine, but when I analyzed it carefully, I realized that the remote, the white Honda, and even the big drainpipe, represented close friends of mine. And it all came true...I ended up walking out on my friend high centered over the drainpipe, with the remote in my pocket.
zephaniah:
This is fascinating. I did some dream/memory exercises in the late eighties, and remember that during the time I was writing out the dreams as I remembered them that they did make sense - a surprise to me - when I concentrated on examining the information contained therein as it related to my real life. Thank you for the continuation.
zephaniah:
These obscene Goddesses described by her heal through sexual/sensual means. One is Baubo, the ancient Greek Goddess of Obscenity or the Belly Goddess. Another one is named Coyote Dick. And I think a contemporary person who should go in this category is our dear Annie Proulx.
!!! A goddess named Coyote Dick?!? Now that's a deep metaphor!
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