The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Fran]

"Without getting up [Jack] threw deadwood on the fire, the sparks flying up with their truths and lies, a few hot points of fire landing on their hands and faces, not for the first time, and they rolled down into the dirt."  [story]

[Toast]

The argument between Jack and Ennis resolves nothing between them.  But it might have spurred Jack to use his motto:  "If you can't fix it then, by God, drive off from it."

[southendmd]

That last night together, they shared a joint, and downed a swig or two of whiskey.

[memento]

Jack initially got a tepid response from Ennis when he said he wanted to go some place warm, like Mexico. Later his response became much more heated.

[Toast]

Ennis shows his uncomfortableness in the early confrontation with Jack by chewing his nails, grunting, strutting, shrugging his shoulders, and shifting his weight from foot to foot until he becomes really confrontational to Jack and stares, threatens, and hits him.   But it all turns to tears when he realizes that they are both hurting - he just as much as Jack.

[Fran]

Jack voiced his bitter disappointment over the fact that Ennis would not be able to get away again until November when he said:  "Never enough time, never enough.  You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation.  You used to come away easy.  Not it's like seein' the Pope."

[Meryl]

At their last night by the campfire, Jack finally gives up trying to describe to Ennis what it's like for him in Childress, saying simply and wistfully:  "Tell you what..truth is, sometimes I miss you so bad I can hardly stand it..."

[Toast]

[Proulx]

"Years on years they worked their way through the high meadows and mountain drainages, horse-packing into the Big Horns, Medicine Bows, south end of the Gallatins, Absarokas, Granites, Owl Creeks, the Bridger-Teton Range, the Freezeouts and the Shirleys, Ferrises and the Rattlesnakes, Salt River Range, into the Wind Rivers over and again, the Sierra Madres, Gros Ventres, the Washakies, Laramies, but never returning to Brokeback."

The frustration which has built up over these years and journeys xplodes in May of 1983 as Jack and Ennis should be having a quiet loving good-bye with promises of "See you in August."

[Toast]

Round 396

"Ain't Nothing Football Cain't Fix"
A Superbowl Tribute to LD and Mrs. Newsome.

[Meryl]

L.D.'s ill-considered second attempt to turn on the football game after Jack had turned it off forced Jack to respond with asperity.

def. = harshness of temper