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P.O. Boxes, Mailboxes and the No. 17
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Marge_Innavera on August 13, 2006, 12:04:33 pm ---why would people be peering through a window at his mail in the first place?
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Well, the postal workers would be likely to read them (I know this because one of my best friends works for the P.O.). Even so, nobody's likely to think the messages are anything more than what they appear to be: correspondence between fishing buddies.
As for the 17, I like the far-fetched explanations!
jpwagoneer1964:
--- Quote from: atz75 on August 11, 2006, 08:05:10 pm ---Greetings Open Forum Denizens!
Why didn't they send letters in envelopes? If they had they could have communicated with each other better. They could have written longer notes and with the cover of an envelope they could have told each other more private things without so much worry about other people seeing.
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I thought one of the advantages of being a gay man was you did have to write a lot of flowery love letters. Ha Ha
Brown Eyes:
Wow Andrew! That's amazing about the 17 mountain ranges. You're right that it's probably just coincidence, but it's an awfully cool coincidence.
About people reading the postcards... Well people are nosy and it's a tiny town. Plus, Alma reads Jack's postcards, we know that. Jack and Ennis were clearly almost counting on the idea that people were going to be reading the postcards... thus the elaborate, long-lived stories about fishing trips.
serious crayons:
OT but, now that you mention it, I've kind of wondered why they didn't fish. I mean, they had all that time on their hands, what else do they have to do?? ::)
OK, you don't need to answer that. But really. They go horseback riding. They go hunting. They've got all the fishing tackle with them. Why not?
Maybe because if they did, Alma wouldn't have any evidence to throw at Ennis later.
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on August 13, 2006, 07:01:48 pm ---OT but, now that you mention it, I've kind of wondered why they didn't fish. I mean, they had all that time on their hands, what else do they have to do?? ::)
OK, you don't need to answer that. But really. They go horseback riding. They go hunting. They've got all the fishing tackle with them. Why not?
Maybe because if they did, Alma wouldn't have any evidence to throw at Ennis later.
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I remember this question being debated somewhere before and I seem to recall the conclusions about why they don't fish are related to Ennis's little white lie to Alma about whether Jack was someone he used to "cowboy with" and Ennis fibs and says they were fishing buddies. I think the line of argument had something to do with the idea that Ennis wanted to keep everything about his actual relationship with Jack completely separate from anything having to do with Riverton. I think the discussion was about Ennis's specific desire to actively avoid fishing actually. I'm going to go see if I can find that thread...
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