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Is Jack still alive?
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: brokebackjack on January 28, 2008, 04:43:28 pm ---http://www.davecullen.com/forum/index.php?topic=17094.msg552102#msg552102
this is a link to the Annie Proulx article at cullen's TDS, with contributions from brokies like Tellyouwhat, FrontRanger, me and AdrianDelmar. It's the Oct27, 2006 issue at Casper, Wyoming. It has a great deal of information within it, of benefit to anyone who likes discussing the story. If it wasn't for this thread I'd have lost it myself>> had to hunt for it---and now I've saved the page.
again OT, but I don't know where to put it.
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Thank you for your elaboration on your comments over several posts. I too see the parallels between the BM story and several of the Greek mythological tales.
You may have already read them, but I would like to point out that there are two scholarly essays in "Reading Brokeback Mountain" ed. Jim Stacy which substantiate much of what you are saying in your posts.
I refer to :
"Arcadia and the Passionate shepherds of Brokeback Mountain", by Henry Alley
"Proulx's Pastoral: Brokeback Mountain as Sacred Space", by Ginger Jones
if you do not have a copy of this collection of essays, I highly recommend purchase.
Phillip Dampier:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on January 30, 2008, 11:18:47 pm ---I think that both of us were singing out of tune that night and we made the choir sound a bit sour.
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As I wrote to you in a PM, we're all a bit like long tailed cats in a room full of rocking chairs this past week or so. Everyone is sort of on the edge of their seats, and tolerance levels are way down as people deal with the hand we've been dealt. I have always respected and enjoyed spending time writing to you in public and private. Your gracious message here makes me respect you even more than ever. It's a pleasure to know you and have you as a part of our community!
brokeplex:
thank you very much, I appreciate your thoughts!
brokebackjack:
Bill, that was one of the nicest messages I have ever read. Thank YOU. I can fly off the handle, which amounts to jumping off of a cliff. From now on I think twice before hitting the send button.These past days have been so crazy...We were both 'long tailed cats' this week. And that is a great analogy if there ever was one.
I haven't read the essays but will. Sounds fascinating. Thanks for the tip, I'm going to buy that book. I'm glad you liked the articles. They have a lot of information in them, info which might help us all understand the story, and the author's intent, better. Hell, I wrote one of them and had forgotten a few things myself. Things like those shouldn't be allowed to gather dust.
Front-Ranger:
Based on this very interesting conversation, I think we can definitely state that, yes, Jack is still "alive," his spirit, that is. And with Mardi Gras and Lent coming up, it's something to contemplate!!!
My friend brokebackjack reviewed Annie Proulx's presentation very well, but there's even more here:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,4224.0.html
and there's some quotations from an excellent interview with her here:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,16252.0.html
And there's a general book discussion here:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,8238.0.html
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