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Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll
pastorfred:
judyh-
Thanks for those beautifully expressed thoughts on Ennis and Jack and Ennis and Ellery. I'm so glad that they were posted over on that other site. I hope they will help others both there and here in understanding. They certainly have helped me.
Phillip Dampier:
Guys and gals, thanks for making this one of our busier threads here. Please do me one favor though. I like to maintain positive relationships and feelings towards all of the other Brokeback Mountain-related forums. I know there may be differences in points of view and style on the different sites, but users can decide which they favor by spending the time at the sites they enjoy most. I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable who enjoys this site and others, so let's keep it friendly. Being united feels so much better than being divided.
Thanks!!! :D
notBastet:
You guys inspired me! I took a special trip to the store to pick up some Ben and Jerry's... I just had a new flavor - Neapolitan Dynamite (I think). It's Cherry Garcia and Chocolate Brownie side by side. It was delicious!
(My fave flavor - Chocolate Peanut Butter is at Baskin Robbins, and they were already closed for the night...)
I'm sure y'all are sick and tired of hearing my opinion today... but I think Ennis moving on, in part, says, I loved you Jack, thanks for teaching me to love, I'm sorry I didn't do better by you, but look at what you taught me about loving... maybe that is just me being overly romantic. (In general, I don't begrudge people happiness.)
I also think for Ennis, and for some like him (I include myself in that group), opening up to strangers (like he did at the opening of Taking Chances) may actually be easier than opening up to people you know and love. They don't have a vision of who you are that you may risk ruining by revealing a 'secret.' I know it has been much easier for me to talk about my Brokeback experience with online 'strangers' than with people I know in real life. As nervous as he was about being at the bar in Laramie, he knew they all had one thing in common...
notBastet:
Okay, I went back and read Leslie's original comment...
Which prompted me to say one more thing - I think epiphanies (or whatever you choose to call life changing experiences) can happen to anyone, at any age, and I think there is no limit on the scale in terms of what can cause an epiphany (e.g. reading a particular slogan on a billboard vs. losing a loved one).
notBastet:
--- Quote from: Quiplash on July 16, 2006, 09:49:36 pm ---I expect I'm going to hang out in both and try to stay out of the line of fire ;)
--- End quote ---
My sincere apologies for making anyone feel like they were in the line of fire... certainly wasn't my intention. (Was just trying to express my opinion, unpopular though it was.) I am having a lot of fun discussing Ennis and Ellery here (thanks everyone!) - I hope you will too.
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