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P.O. Boxes, Mailboxes and the No. 17
jpwagoneer1964:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on August 14, 2006, 03:12:10 pm ---Mark, you just made a comment on the "fantasy scenes" thread that got me wondering. You said you think Ennis would have kept all of Jack's post cards (and that he should have tacked the very first one up in his closet, message-side out). I would like to think he did keep them, but I don't know ... I'm guessing he would find that too risky.
What does everyone else think?
???
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he may have found a safe hiding spot, glove compartment to his truck, small box with his tools, maybe his saddle had a pocket, hidden conpartment in tackle box, somewhere in the truck most likely.
Mikaela:
Much as i would have like him to, I don't think Ennis kept the postcards. Possibly, just possibly he kept the first one, but not the others. He was too careful, too "paranoid" - worried over the worst-case scenario of someone finding the cards and immediately "knowing" the meaning of him keeping them. I don't think he kept those cards any more than I believe he kept a photo of Jack. :-\
Though if he *did* keep them, there sure would be a satsifying and poetic sort of wry irony to him keeping them hidden in his fishing tackle box. it's not like that got used too much for other purposes, and it was after all intimately connected to his relationship with Jack.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: goadra on August 14, 2006, 09:50:30 pm --- he probably never developed a sentimental side. Until the end.
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:'( !
jpwagoneer1964:
--- Quote from: goadra on August 14, 2006, 09:50:30 pm ---No, he would not keep them there. “One night I got your creel case open...”
I don’t think he would have been able to find a safe place for them for the seven or so years he and Alma were together after the reunion. And I don’t know whether Ennis even would have kept them--Jack was the sentimental one, keeping the shirts, his toy horse-and-rider, the blue truck under the desk. Even though his mom “kept his room,” Jack could still have thrown those things out. Ennis didn’t grow up in just one place (as Jack apparently did), didn’t have even a place to keep anything important, so he probably never developed a sentimental side. Until the end.
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I think Ennis was sentimental, remember how he held the first card he got from jack reading it over and over? If I were Ennis the one safe place I would hide them would be inside the seat of his trucks. In those day the seats were made from zig zag metal springs wraped in burlap just below the upper surface of the seat, leaving it mor or less hollow, unloke today where the seats are mostly foam. He could have rigged up a place were they were well held in on the seat bottom and if Alma or anyone used teh truck no one would ever know. These were the only things he ever had of Jack and I think he would have kept them.
serious crayons:
The better he hid them, the more suspicion they'd arouse if anybody found them. If he put them inside the truck seat, he'd worry about getting in an accident and having them discovered by the rescuers or something.
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