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Um...Calculus?
twocowboywaltz:
--- Quote from: injest on January 08, 2008, 01:00:32 am ---I dont' think you will find any of those kind here... ;)
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...cause they get chased out with tire irons when they're found! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
I agree that Brokeback is chock full of metaphors, and for a teacher to say that it isn't...well, he must not know what he's talking about. :-\
--- Quote from: melb_boy88 ---I turn every straight love affair into a gay one. It helps with accepting the idea that the world is normal in my standards.
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Admittedly, I find myself doing this a lot too. Reading about a Jane? Bam. She's a Jack. That sort of thing.
"Joseph Golden":
...cause they get chased out with tire irons when they're found!
Yeah, we have our own band of brothers. It's a pity we all don't have our own Brokeback Mountain we can live and all the tire iron type get chased away. By the type that gets chased. Do you have you own Tire iron folks where you are?. I do ::)
It makes my universe turn. All of us are born gay. The straight are weird. And they get chased by tire irons. I cant seing our type doing that though. But im sure you understand the dream i have.
:-X :P 8)
twocowboywaltz:
Ewwwww. Straight people ARE weird! Haha. :laugh: :laugh: (j/k to all the straights reading!) The tire iron people hide in the ground, waiting for unsuspecting victims to pass by before they leap up to strike! They're blind like moles but stubborn in their ways like weeds. :P
Unfortunately, I do have the tire iron type here. Yeah, my dad is the tire iron type, and it's like treading on eggshells around him because whenever he opens his mouth to talk to me, I flinch and go "oh god, he knows" and prepare myself for the worst. I really, really hope they're not everywhere, cause if they're not, that's the place I'd like to live. :-\
"Joseph Golden":
Unfortunately, I do have the tire iron type here. Yeah, my dad is the tire iron type, and it's like treading on eggshells around him because whenever he opens his mouth to talk to me, I flinch and go "oh god, he knows" and prepare myself for the worst. I really, really hope they're not everywhere, cause if they're not, that's the place I'd like to live.
Dad's are the worse. When my real dad heard a rumor about me. He gave me this book. It was "How to control and elliminate unwanted or unexcepted desires" :-\
I dont know where he got it. But it all about how to not be homosexual. I burned t in the end. Theres no way i'm passing that on. :laugh:
I belive there is a place. It's called Brokeback Mountain. And we are all searching for it. One day we both will find it and i hope its the same one. ;D
Lynne:
--- Quote from: melb_boy88 on January 08, 2008, 01:42:51 am ---I belive there is a place. It's called Brokeback Mountain. And we are all searching for it. One day we both will find it and i hope its the same one. ;D
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That's a beautiful and profound statement, Melb_boy. I've been following your story and apologize for not posting before now. I'm an 39-year old bisexual woman - for me my Brokeback Mountain was a place I found around the age of 19 but lost touch with so here I am 20 years later trying to reacquaint myself with who I really am.
Second thing - my minor in college was Southern American literature - Clearly, I'm no renown authority, but there are a lot of similarities in the Southern American lit tradition (like Faulkner, O'Connor) and American Western writers like Proulx. Any teacher who thinks that Brokeback Mountain is not worthy of analysis vis a vis metaphor is missing some critical brain cells. And as you say is likely prejudiced because of the homosexual nature of the story. But jeez, hasn't this teacher ever read any Oscar Wilde??! Viriginia Woolfe??! I'd love to read your paper if you feel up to sharing it. I sketched out an essay about the Christian symbolism in the movie in the early days - it needs polishing but I'd be happy to share.
-Lynne
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