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Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll
pastorfred:
I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but part of my story touches on the question of Ennis and Ellery visiting the sacred mountain together.
My first marriage ended in divorce after my wife experienced cataclysmic personality changes that left a different personality in the same body. She was the great love of my life, and the person there now is my lifelong friend.
My second wife became a close friend of my first. The three of us had many good times together, visiting in each other’s homes, seeing places special to us all. I’ll never forget the moment my second wife and I told my first that we were about to be married. The first smiled and said, “Well, that’s the logical next step in your relationship.”
I’m sharing this to say that love and friendship are very fluid. One relationship does not threaten or weaken another that has irretrievably ended. Brokeback Mountain will not be less sacred after Ennis takes Ellery there. If there is any change, it will be more sacred. Memories of Jack are not diminished by Ennis’s recognizing that he and Jack shared a deep and true love. It works both ways: Because of his great love for Jack, Ennis was able to recognize true love when it was born in his heart for Ellery. Because he learned to name the feelings as love for Ellery, he was able to recognize that he loved Jack. Love begets love.
louisev:
The bad news:
Yesterday morning I woke up with spots coming up on my face and itchiness: classic allergic symptoms for the antibiotic I was taking. Even though my dentist had prescribed something in the "safe" family of cephalosporins, I was stuck in a dilemma. I have an infection needing antibiotics, and I am allergic to the antibiotic now. So I called my doctor and he told me to stop taking what I was taking, and give it 24 hours. If I worsen then he can give me the "safe" one I have used for the past 10 years.
A night and half a day went by, and I worsened. Now I am using up my precious codeine as I wait to get out of work to rush to go get Cephalexin, and hope that I don't worsen too much more before the tried-and-true antibiotic kicks in. More than this, there is a lingering possibility of developing an allergy to the old tried and true. Which might make getting better from this infection problematic. I know there are hundreds of antibiotics out there... but I am already allergic to a half dozen of the most-used and most-indicated.
In the midst of this I am still hanging fire on the Foreign office for my visa extension (which visa expires next Thursday.) Even if it does come through, my contract customer here wants to reduce the rate on my contract in October, which means I should find another job, and my boss in Britain is putting the pressure on for me to take a different contract in Hertfordshire, meaning uprooting and jetting over there for 6 months. Ai yi yi...
The punch line: I hope I don't worsen so much that I have to stop writing again, but that is always a possibility. The next few days look iffy, and my surgery is scheduled for Monday. Wish me luck!
notBastet:
a member of the choir here Fred, but I still really liked what you had to say. it's exactly how I feel.
especially this, "One relationship does not threaten or weaken another that has irretrievably ended."
of course that is much easier to say than understand sometimes.
louisev:
Is that anyone we know?
We have an opening for a new assistant D.A.
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Scott6373 on August 25, 2006, 10:06:11 am ---
Who could this guy play? ;) Hehehehehehe
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Maybe he's your Ellery, but he sure ain't mine! I don't think we've cast Reynolds yet, either, but I picture him younger than this.
L
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