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The shirts and the Dozy Embrace
Ellemeno:
There has got to be a thread to put this in, and everyone else here probably thought of this two years ago, but it just came to me, I think for the first time, that the shirts hanging together are like an eternal Dozy Embrace. It was my first big BBM realization in a long, long time. Go ahead and tell me you realized it ages ago....
:)
Also, go ahead and move this to an appropriate thread, but let me know where, by PM, iffen you could.
:-*
BlissC:
--- Quote from: Elle on July 05, 2008, 03:29:35 pm ---Go ahead and tell me you realized it ages ago....
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Well I realised it about 20 seconds ago when I read the title of your thread. :laugh:
Good observation - I think we'd all realised the significance of Ennis protecting Jack, the shirts being together and never parted, in the way that Jack and Ennis never could be, but I'd never thought about it in terms of the Dozy Embrace before.
Artiste:
Merci elle !
Quite interesting is your thread !
Does it also note contrast ?
Au revoir,
hugs!
Luvlylittlewing:
--- Quote from: Elle on July 05, 2008, 03:29:35 pm ---There has got to be a thread to put this in, and everyone else here probably thought of this two years ago, but it just came to me, I think for the first time, that the shirts hanging together are like an eternal Dozy Embrace. It was my first big BBM realization in a long, long time. Go ahead and tell me you realized it ages ago....
:)
Also, go ahead and move this to an appropriate thread, but let me know where, by PM, iffen you could.
:-*
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I didn't realize this until now! Very interesting, Elle!
Brown Eyes:
Heya Elle!
This is a great topic for a thread. 8) Even if there is an old thread somewhere about this... it's probably good to start fresh once in a while. And, off the top of my head, I honestly can't think of an old thread that focuses on this question alone anyway.
Yes, it's interesting to imagine the ritual that Ennis went through in order to extract his own shirt out from within Jack's blue shirt and then to re-weave Jack's shirt within his own. It probably would have been quite a task... and obviously very emotional. It's also interesting to try to imagine at which point Ennis would have thought to do this.
I also find it interesting to think about which two shirts these are. They seem to be the shirt that Jack wore in TS1 and the shirt Ennis wore in TS2. Ennis wears the shirt with the larger brown plaid squares in TS1 (an that's also the shirt we see Alma dealing with on the laundry line in the strong wind later at their lonesome old ranch when the girls are really small). Ennis's shirt in the final, eternal pairing is also the shirt that we see Jack washing in the stream.
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