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getting hit hard by offhand revelations (story discussion)
Front-Ranger:
Too late! She's gone. So, all of you who want to talk about fanfiction on this story thread, I capitulate. Now don't get excited. Copulate and capitulate are two different words!
Phillip Dampier:
We have a forum for fan fiction already, so I'm not sure why this one needs to take a turn away from Proulx's own story. I personally am not a big fan fiction reader either, but mostly because my time to read much of anything is so limited. There is a place for both and fans for both.
Front-Ranger:
I have been writing a paper on Hunter Thompson and the evolution of the Romantic tradition in American literature. Now, after meeting Annie Proulx, I am tempted to include her as one who carries on the Romantic tradition. I would be interested in your thoughts on the subject.
Front-Ranger:
One giveaway that AP is a Romantic IMO is when she writes, "Nothin he'd done before but no instruction manual needed." That implies that the sudden turn of events in TS1 was not due to any cultural or educational expectation, but was attributed to something outside of Ennis, such as the influence of nature, instinct, or perhaps even extrasensory in some way. This passage follows the same traditions of even the earliest American Romantics like Thoreau, Whitman, and Emerson.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: goadra on November 06, 2006, 11:16:44 pm ---
* “Ennis, weather-eyed, looked west for the heated cumulus that might come up on such a day” -and- “On the third morning there were the clouds Ennis had expected” -- Jack might control the weather, but it’s Ennis who can predict it.
--- End quote ---
Yes. I always interpret this as saying Ennis is pessiimistically looking ahead to a future problem. Eventually, he's right -- the clouds come. While Ennis is busy worrying about the bad times to come, Jack is enjoying the present -- a sky so "boneless blue" that he "might drown looking up." Which later, of course, he does. :'(
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