Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5674460 times)

Offline Toast

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"T" is throws
« Reply #10780 on: February 01, 2007, 05:53:23 pm »
Jack throws his rifle scabbard and saddlebags onto the rear seat of his pickup.  Jack already looks sad and tired as he says he'll head up to Lightning Flats and see the folks for a day or two.   Then Ennis makes the farewell more difficult by finally admitting that their August date is off. 

« Last Edit: February 01, 2007, 06:44:14 pm by Toast »

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"U" is unexpectedness
« Reply #10781 on: February 01, 2007, 07:02:56 pm »
Ennis tells Jack that, most likely, it will be November before they can get together again, and Jack is stunned by the unexpectedness of the news.
« Last Edit: February 01, 2007, 07:53:41 pm by Fran »

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"V" is vitally
« Reply #10782 on: February 01, 2007, 10:07:07 pm »
It was vitally important to Jack that he make Ennis understand how much he was suffering in their relationship: "You got no idea how bad it gets."

« Last Edit: February 01, 2007, 10:10:59 pm by Meryl »
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"W" is weathered
« Reply #10783 on: February 01, 2007, 10:11:50 pm »
Story Jack had just weathered four or five "cold days at a series of little icebound, no-name high lakes" in May,  and now Ennis was talking about taking their next trip in November.   

Jack:  "November. What in hell happened a August? Tell you what, we said August, nine, ten days. Christ, Ennis! Whyn't you tell me this before? You had a fuckin week to say some little word about it. And why's it we're always in the friggin cold weather? We ought a do somethin. We ought a go south. We ought a go to Mexico one day."
« Last Edit: February 01, 2007, 10:22:36 pm by Toast »

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"X" is xclamatory
« Reply #10784 on: February 01, 2007, 11:10:55 pm »
Ennis stands as if heart-shot and Jack attempts to comfort him, only to hear Ennis issue an xclamatory command:  "Get the fuck off me!"

« Last Edit: February 01, 2007, 11:30:09 pm by Fran »

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Round 395!
« Reply #10785 on: February 01, 2007, 11:34:23 pm »
Round 395!


"...the boneless blue was so deep, said Jack,
that he might drown looking up."
« Last Edit: February 02, 2007, 02:02:38 am by Fran »

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"A" is aches
« Reply #10786 on: February 02, 2007, 12:20:21 am »
Jack is telling Ennis how much he aches for him when he says: "You got no fuckin idea how bad it gets."

« Last Edit: February 02, 2007, 12:24:44 am by Memento »

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"B" is Brokeback's
« Reply #10787 on: February 02, 2007, 12:29:57 am »
Jack tells Ennis that Brokeback's all they have now.  Everything built on that. 

« Last Edit: February 02, 2007, 01:23:51 am by Toast »

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"C" is curled
« Reply #10788 on: February 02, 2007, 12:34:53 am »
INT. WYOMING MOUNTAINS:  TENT:  EARLY MORNING:  1981:

The two men, asleep in the tent, ENNIS curled around JACK.  [screenplay]

« Last Edit: February 02, 2007, 02:21:48 am by Fran »

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"D" is difficult
« Reply #10789 on: February 02, 2007, 12:41:44 am »
"Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives." [story]