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P.O. Boxes, Mailboxes and the No. 17
Front-Ranger:
Very interesting observations, Phillip and Toast. Unfortunately I cannot see the photos as Photobucket is blocked on my work computer. I will look forward to analyzing them when I get home tonite.
You might find the book "Postcards" by Annie Proulx interesting because each chapter begins with an illustration of a postcard sent by or to one of the characters in the book.
As far as Yosemite goes, I'm looking forward to finding the Yosemite reference so I can lay it to rest, and then I don't want the word Yosemite mentioned to me again for a good long time!! This from a person who once curated an exhibition of archived Yosemite photography for the park's 100th anniversary!!
Toast:
What I find interesting is that Ennis has a stub of an envelope with Texas written on it (presumably his note for the complete address) and then he writes Texas on the reply card to Jack.
The Texas on the card and on the envelope stub seem to be written by two completely different people.
jpwagoneer1964:
--- Quote from: Toast on January 02, 2007, 12:53:00 pm ---What I find interesting is that Ennis has a stub of an envelope with Texas written on it (presumably his note for the complete address) and then he writes Texas on the reply card to Jack.
The Texas on the card and on the envelope stub seem to be written by two completely different people.
--- End quote ---
But the 'You bet' is the same writing.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: jpwagoneer1964 on January 01, 2007, 08:26:20 pm ---These were my thoughts on the subject that I wrote on 'Photo Captions'.
Ennis thinking: Puttin' these here numbers on my mail box. 17 don't mean nuttin', just that Ah live in space number 17 in this here trailer park. Some folks get upset thinking everything has to mean somethin'.
--- End quote ---
LOL! Mark, tell Ennis just to pay us no mind, we are just looking for a way to take our minds off our troubles!!
Brown Eyes:
I have a question (that leads to several more) that I feel is almost worth it's own thread... The main question is who stamped that postcard "DECEASED"? Was it the post office? Could it possibly have been Lureen? If Lureen was still living at the same address wouldn't that postcard have been delivered to her like normal? Had Jack really been dead long enough for the post office to stop delivering his mail like normal (especially since his wife would be their to receive it anyway)? Clearly, there must be a return address on that postcard... since somehow the postcard made its way back to Ennis. If the postcard had arrived at the Twist house, then Lureen would definitely know both Ennis's name and address. Making her story on the phone sound a bit more fishy.
This question actually came up in a fanfic story I was reading (some of you how read fic might recognize this issue), but I thought it was compelling enough to warrant serious discussion with regard to the actual movie.
cheers
Amanda
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