Even though Annie Proulx called Jack's death an accident
*, Ennis accepts the
vatical death of Earl in the ditch as the means of death for Jack Twist.
" ... They'd took a tire iron to him, spurred him up, drug him around by his dick until it pulled off, just bloody pulp. What the tire iron done looked like pieces a burned tomatoes all over him, nose tore down from skiddin on gravel."
def - resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
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* - Annie Proulx wrote: Ennis didn't know about the accident for months until his postcard to Jack saying that November still looked like the first chance came back stamped DECEASED.