Hi All: Also into the rereading, and certainly agree with the previous posters. What I always enjoy is the way Louise can throw away a perfect description with apparant carelessness and deadpan casualness. Like this one:
"This here's a gay bar, friend," Bill said, the word rolling out of his mouth as easy as a prayer on Sunday.
There are so many one-liners like this throughout the Saga - they increase so much our enjoyment of the story.
Can I now be critical? Please don't start throwing things at me, or worse, banning me from the bar, but I do want to make this observation, which has niggled at me ever since I first read the story:
I really cannot picture Jack, up there on Brokeback Mountain, sitting down and recording his thoughts about Ennis in a Journal. It seems so out of character for the Jack we read about in the original story - about the last thing he would do there. Even more odd, I think, is that Ennis, having received the Journal, would wait so long before opening and reading it, and then only page at a time, with significant time lapses between each new page. Surely the obvious thing to have done would have been to read it through in full as soon as possible after first getting it? Both of these things strain plausibility just a bit too far. Of course, I can see why Louise did it - it provides a way to put Jack into the story. In a way, Jack is speaking to Ennis from beyond the grave, which of course adds to the angst and the pressure and internal conflict Ennis feels at this stage of his 'coming out' process. And it makes Jack still a significant character in the story, which of course is Louise's intention, isn't it?
Ok, now I'll retreat a safe distance and hear what anyone might like to say in response to this comment. Be gentle with me, please?