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Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll
opinionista:
--- Quote from: mariez on January 26, 2007, 01:55:16 pm ---Thanks for posting the great pic - that is awesome! I wonder what Ellery is sayiing! :laugh:
--- End quote ---
Ellery is probably saying:
Ellery: Ennis, do you hear that?
Ennis: What?
Ellery: Doorbell!
Or maybe: Did you change the sheets again?
;D
mariez:
--- Quote from: opinionista on January 26, 2007, 04:53:47 pm ---Ellery is probably saying:
Ellery: Ennis, do you hear that?
Ennis: What?
Ellery: Doorbell!
Or maybe: Did you change the sheets again?
;D
--- End quote ---
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Oh, God, that's hilarious - look at Ennis's face - he does look like he's straining to hear the bell!!!
But you could be right about the sheets - lots of talk about sheets lately! Maybe Ellery heard David's suggestion: "So, Ennis, what do ya think about that 'Scotchgard' idea? " ;D
Thanks!
Marie
louisev:
hahaha! after an impossibly hard day I had a total howl reading these comments!
"Doorbell" hahahahah.
magicmountain:
Hi all,
I posted the following appreciation of Ennis in another place in response to yet another post putting Ennis down as a no hoper with no future. Louise suggested I re-post it here and here it is.
Ennis has a deep reticence and shyness that hides something precious: a loving heart, steadfast loyalty and a capacity for deep devotion. Once someone to sees this hidden beauty, as Jack did, they can never break away from him. Once you have aroused this man’s deep sexual passion, he can never break away from you.
This is a man made to love and receive love in return. He is in desperate need of love and withers without it. He has learnt bitter lessons from a terrible loss; his hard inner shell has been cracked open and his emotions are much nearer the surface now. He cries easily. He has paid a dreadful penalty for past mistakes and the pain he knows he has inflicted. He will not, cannot inflict that hurt on a person he loves again. He is filled with remorse and guilt.
You would need to woo this man and take bold action to capture him. Once captured you would need to nurse him through the miseries of guilt and aching loss and know you will never take the place of a man he will always love. But this is a man made to love and receive love in return. Ennis is a hidden treasure waiting to be found. He is well worth it.
MaineWriter:
Thanks for that, Jo. Insightful comment, as always.
Re-readers...chapters 76 to 80 today. More rough going, sigh.
http://louisev.livejournal.com/70341.html
“Pickin up my bartender an fuckin em! Not in my bar he ain’t. Not on my payroll he ain’t.” To Ennis’s shocked surprise, he got out of bed and began to dress in a frantic hurry.
“They are both goin, an now.”
“Ellery that ain’t a good idea.”
“Oh it’s a fuckin good idea. It’s my fuckin bar an Bruce fuckin queer Eagleton ain’t fuckin my bartender in my fuckin apartment over my fuckin queer bar this night or any night an this’ll be the last night he spends in Laramie in a good long while...!” he raged, kicking one of his shoes and chasing it until he jammed it on his foot without socks.
“Ellery no... you ain’t goin nowhere. Just pretend he didn’t call an you don’t know nothin about it. You ain’t thinkin straight, I know that much.” Ennis got out of bed and stepped toward him, and Ellery held up a warning hand.
“Don’t you try ta stop me. This is between me an him.”
“Don’t you know why he called you Ellery? Have you lost yer brain? He did it ta rile ya up!”
“Well he succeeded real well. Cause I am fuckin riled.”
“You ain’t goin anywhere, if that means I got ta sit on you, yer stayin right here, Ellery.”
“Ennis, don’t cross me on this.”
“I’m sorry Ellery, but this is just fucked up, an I can’t believe you are actin this way without havin a fifth a scotch in you.” Ennis moved rapidly, catching Ellery’s arms, and he immediately began to struggle.
“Let me go goddammit!” he growled, writhing.
“Ya know if we hadn’t just done it I’d be gettin hard from this, boy,” Ennis said, trying to cajole him down.
“You ain’t helpin. Let me go. He is gettin out a this town at gunpoint.”
“Oh no, that ain’t gonna happen boy, you just settle.” Ennis maneuvered him back to the bed and sat, winding his long legs around his ankles and imprisoning him on his lap, and it suddenly occurred to him he had done this very recently... with Pete, only this time he was naked and Ellery was dressed, and the writhing of his body in the denims was abrading his thighs.
“Ennis... yer standin in the way a justice here,” Ellery said, his voice tight with restrained fury. “You just let me go... I ain’t been drinkin.... I can set someone off my property, I got the right.”
“Not if yer goin off half cocked, an since I love you an care about you I ain’t lettin you go nowhere like this because yer fuckin nuts right now.”
“Ennis you don’t understand.”
“Oh... yes I do. I’m the one who’s possessive an jealous remember. I understand real fuckin good. An if you want ta keep squirmin like this I’m gonna call Wes up an have em come down an give you a talkin to.”
“You wouldn’t dare.”
L
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