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The Names
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: optom3 on May 08, 2008, 11:46:16 am ---Jack Keroac is such a good one,The book is a must read for most teens.Thanks for that reminder.
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Fiona and everyone, there's a discussion of On the Road here:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,8941.0/all.html
I am currently listening to the book on CD, as read by Matt Dillon.
optom3:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 08, 2008, 01:03:03 pm ---Fiona and everyone, there's a discussion of On the Road here:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,8941.0/all.html
I am currently listening to the book on CD, as read by Matt Dillon.
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Reading your post brought back so many teenage memories that I nipped out to Barnes and noble and bought a copy.While I was there I also bought,the road to Wigan pier and down and out in Paris and london by Orwell,which I had read about the same time
Artiste:
Very interesting posts and thread !!
Artiste:
Front-Ranger, you say:
The names Ledger and Gyllenhaal seem to be opposites in several different ways. Gyllenhaal is a playful sounding name with lots of vowels; Ledger is a solid sounding name with more consonants.
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Front-Ranger, may I totally agree with you!
Maybe, it's likewise with the names Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist; it seems to me that Jack was playing with the names Ennis Del Mar the first time he heard it !! ??
Au revoir,
hugs!
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Artiste on May 08, 2008, 02:43:03 pm ---Front-Ranger, you say:
The names Ledger and Gyllenhaal seem to be opposites in several different ways. Gyllenhaal is a playful sounding name with lots of vowels; Ledger is a solid sounding name with more consonants.
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Front-Ranger, may I totally agree with you!
Maybe, it's likewise with the names Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist; it seems to me that Jack was playing with the names Ennis Del Mar the first time he heard it !! ??
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Good point, Artiste. Maybe it was a family trait...Old Man Twist seemed to be playing with Ennis' name too, but in an acrimonious way. "'Ennis Del Mar...Ennis Del Mar' he used a say. We gonna come and whip this land into shape." (I'm paraphrasing here). Ennis seemed to be sensitive about his name. When he HAD to divulge his last name to Jack, he said DEL mar, instead of del MAR, as if trying to make it more manly and redneck. It is certainly easy to imagine Ennis as a boy being taunted on the playground about his first name!!
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