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Why do you think it's called "The Wings?"
saucycobblers:
--- Quote from: moremojo on September 08, 2006, 08:02:18 pm ---That's a great passage, by the way, and let's also remember the eagle feather that Jack sports in his hat when Ennis first meets him...another subtle reference to that cowboy's wild and free ways.
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Yeah, that passage is one of my two favourites. It's absolutely beautiful and perfect in every way. I'd never connected it to the feather in Jack's hat before. Nice observation!
Brown Eyes:
Of course there's always the post-punch wing reference too. "... Ennis had suddenly swung from the deck and laid the ministering angel out in the wild columbine, wings folded." It occurs to me that this might actually be a double wing reference since "la colombe" in French means dove (I know that the columbine mentioned here is a flower... but I wonder if the words might be a related).
And, this association of angel wings with Brokeback has always reminded me a bit of the Matthew Sheppard situation and the people from the Laramie Project who go to funerals and protests, etc. wearing angel wings.
Shakesthecoffecan:
The feeling I have from that music is that in the begining you have those two or three solitary notes and the truck travels toward Signal. It feel like falling down a well, into another place and time. The Wings come along in the end like"your ride is here" and lifts you up and out of that place into the beyond.
Andrew:
--- Quote from: atz75 on September 10, 2006, 10:58:31 pm --- It occurs to me that this might actually be a double wing reference since "la colombe" in French means dove (I know that the columbine mentioned here is a flower... but I wonder if the words might be a related).
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Yes, columbine means little dove. From the shape of the petals, probably - the long tails are something like the long neck of a dove, the wider part like the body.
Brown Eyes:
Thanks Andrew! Yup, I think there are definitely multiple "wing" references in the "post-punch" descriptions (in the story at least).
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