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moment(s) of artless, charmed happiness?

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bbm_stitchbuffyfan:
Wait, wagoneer, what are you saying? I thought that the postcard Ennis has on his closet door was the same one Jack sent him in 1967. I remember them looking exactly alike.

By the way, if that's the case, then that was one of the best liberties they could have taken from the (amazing) story.  :'(

jpwagoneer1964:

--- Quote from: bbm_stitchbuffyfan on June 17, 2006, 08:39:53 pm ---Wait, wagoneer, what are you saying? I thought that the postcard Ennis has on his closet door was the same one Jack sent him in 1967. I remember them looking exactly alike.

By the way, if that's the case, then that was one of the best liberties they could have taken from the (amazing) story.  :'(

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If you look closely at the card when Ennis is reading it, it is from El Capitan, NM. In the book Ennis buys a postcard of Brokeback.

Ellemeno:
I can't disagree with any of what I've read here, but here's something I've thought:

In the lake scene, when Ennis says, "we could go huntin' in November, kill us a nice elk," I think he's trying to soothe/tempt/mollify/attract Jack with the memory of what is Ennis's moment of ACH - when he shot the elk for Jack.  He couldn't provide him with soup or powdered milk or spuds (dumbass mules), but he wound up providing something even better - fresh meat.  I think the shooting, and then the shove, and Jack's glee were Ennis's ACH.

vkm91941:

--- Quote from: Elle-Effen'-Meno on June 18, 2006, 02:45:35 am ---I can't disagree with any of what I've read here, but here's something I've thought:

In the lake scene, when Ennis says, "we could go huntin' in November, kill us a nice elk," I think he's trying to soothe/tempt/mollify/attract Jack with the memory of what is Ennis's moment of ACH - when he shot the elk for Jack.  He couldn't provide him with soup or powdered milk or spuds (dumbass mules), but he wound up providing something even better - fresh meat.  I think the shooting, and then the shove, and Jack's glee were Ennis's ACH.



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Oh Clarissa I like that very much and I think you might just have hit on something here.  We all agreed long ago that Ennis ordered the soup for Jack who was the one "sick of beans" and then the food ends up strewn all over the trail and Ennis comes back to camp injured and there's Jack trying to pretend he wasn't worried and complaining about only finding beans when he was starving.  Yep Ennis shot that Elk for Jack, because he could and it would make Jack happy.

whiteoutofthemoon:

--- Quote from: fernly on June 16, 2006, 08:45:47 pm ---"...that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives."
Setting aside the heart-breaking fact that Jack remembered one moment like that, do you think Ennis remembered the embrace the same way, did it have the same unique power for him? 
Or do you think there was a different moment for Ennis?

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I think for Ennis, it was a lot simpler than that, and his "moment" was the one described in the book in the line in my signature below.    It was before their "relationship" started, and so incredibly poignant, in that Ennis had just discovered a close friend after a lonely, tragic young life.   I also feel that, more than just the sex, this was why he was so miserable about leaving the mountain early, that this unique bond and little paradise that they had had to come to an end, and they had to step back into reality.

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