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jpwagoneer1964:
"Never enough time, never enough"
jpwagoneer1964:
Jack:
Ennis...ya want I stay here with ya, I mean that bear still out there, might'ta followed you...just want to make sure your ok? So I'll stay with ya in the tent? Watch out fer each other ok?
Ennis:....Uh....Uh huh.
moremojo:
--- Quote from: jpwagoneer1964 on September 05, 2006, 01:35:34 pm ---Ennis Thinking:
Sure is a smooth lookin' fella. Look's ta be a good cowboy, probrably c'n rodio good too, has lots ah girls chasin' 'm. Wunder if its him 'r me fer the job. Hopin' Ah didn't come all this way fer nottin'. They wunda send both of us up ta herd sheep whud they? Now that whud be somin'.
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I'm really loving your ongoing ruminations, jpwagoneer1964. Lots of really good insights into the characters, and nice doses of humor to boot.
On this one here, you got me thinking about something that had never occurred to me before. Ennis and Jack might have seen each other as potential rivals for employment outside that Signal trailer. Even with the possible attaction both men felt for one another even then (possible for Ennis, even more likely for Jack), they might have been sizing each other up for far less libidinous reasons. Thanks for introducing me to this idea!
Scott
jpwagoneer1964:
--- Quote from: moremojo on September 11, 2006, 01:50:04 pm ---
On this one here, you got me thinking about something that had never occurred to me before. Ennis and Jack might have seen each other as potential rivals for employment outside that Signal trailer. Even with the possible attaction both men felt for one another even then (possible for Ennis, even more likely for Jack), they might have been sizing each other up for far less libidinous reasons. Thanks for introducing me to this idea!
Scott M.
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In the book it leads you to believe that Jack was up alone the previous year. "Both enjoying the company of the other where none was expected."
twistedude:
There is NO WAY they thought of each other as rivals...in the short story, it says "They came together on paper as camp tender" and "sheep herder."
besides, it's only ENNIS that's being standoffishl Jack is, er..friendly (tto say the least).
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