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Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll
belbbmfan:
--- Quote from: mariez on December 14, 2006, 01:23:57 pm ---“Aw. Damn cat. Neighbor oughta keep it in.”
That one little sentence is just too sweet for words. Ennis and his tender heart - I'm so happy Ellery has custody of it.
Haven't had time to read all the chapters today - but am enjoying the quotes!
Thanks, Marie
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You're right Marie, there are some very sweet sentences in these chapters. Like 'me casa es su casa' so nice.
belbbmfan:
and there are some very funny lines in these chapters too:
“More glamorous livin, Ennis, bein a business owner, sit here an make little stacks a money ta ship off to the bank. Ain’t it a lark?”
Ennis shrugged. “Don’t smell as bad as muckin out heifers.”
or
Fuckin Bill done this ta me. An if I weren’t such an idiot I woulda seen just how insane he was when he did this shit with my partner four years ago. But I wasn’t listenin to my lawyer then an part a me was still thinkin with my gonads.”
“Yer what?”
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
thank you for asking Ennis. I didn't know what gonads were either!
notBastet:
--- Quote from: belbbmfan on December 14, 2006, 01:53:24 pm ---
“Yer what?”
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
thank you for asking Ennis. I didn't know what gonads were either!
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We've all learned something or other from Ennis along the way, eh?
:)
notBastet:
I think we need a pic of the boys to go along with the reread:
This pic probably wasn't introduced until a bit later, when we learn about Ennis seeing green.
;D
MaineWriter:
Good morning re-readers!
Chapters 56-60 today.
http://louisev.livejournal.com/16726.html
from chapter 56, a bit of Ellery's theories on homosexuality and Hollywood. If everyone remembers, this comes up again later.
After dinner – hotdogs and beans (over Ennis’s soft objection) – Ellery did propose a movie, and they watched Ennis’s first Alfred Hitchcock film, “Psycho.” Ellery commented that it seemed apt, since he had much to learn about how crazy men behaved, that he should study more films about psychos, but Ennis suspected the real reason was that Ellery wanted Ennis’s opinion on Tony Perkins. “He’s queer, ya know,” Ellery commented obliquely.
“How’d you know that? Jes intuition?”
“Nope... one a the beat officers was a body guard for em in Los Angeles when he was makin a film and he’d order up boys for rent when he was at the hotel, an some of em were real young. Now, if the only kinda queer ya ever see is that kind, rentin teenage boys for fun, course ya gonna get a bad opinion. But hetrosexual men do the same damn shit, with even younger girls, so queer men aren’t any more evil as a rule, that’s how I look at it.” Ennis found this piece of intelligence fascinating, and he watched Perkins a great deal more closely in the film, concluding that he liked Jack Nicholson a lot better.
L
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