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

[Front-Ranger]

"Docs don't expect he'll make it." -- Aguirre, of Uncle Harold

[Mikaela]

"…then, and as easily as the right key turns the lock tumblers, their mouths came together, and hard, Jack’s big teeth bringing blood, his hat falling to the floor, stubble rasping, wet saliva welling....."
(The short story’s reunion kiss)

=aside= Mika
Welcome back to the ABCz. I look forward to reading your always very interesting posts.
Sandy

[memento]

Ennis and Alma got hitched in December of 1963 (according to the story).

[Toast]

Ennis was immobilized by fear and couldn't accept two guys livin' together.

[Toast]

Front-Ranger played out-of-turn:
failed to skip two posts.
We need a replacement "G"

=comment= Lee
You are no "greenhorn";
maybe too eager today.

[Toast]

Ennis is a man of downward gazes and quiet mumbles.

This is a replacement for "G" is greenhorns,
played out of turn by Front-Ranger.

Next up is "J"

[Mikaela]

Some unpleasant Newsome customers comment jeeringly on Jack's rodeo abilities in Lureen's presence.

=aside=
Thank you, Sandy, and Fran, and Will! !      

[Fran]

An online review of the novella Brokeback Mountain at Query Books:

"A stand-out story...Brokeback Mountain is the sad chronology of a love affair between two men who can't afford to call it that. They know what they're not -- not queer, not gay -- but have no idea what they are."

-- Walter Kirn, New York review

[memento]

The bikers were low-life loudmouths.

[Mikaela]

Ang Lee conveys maddening delirium rendered in the way one man’s eyes gaze at another’s, and then look away, and the looking-away amounts to the murder of two souls as surely as if they’d drawn guns and hit each other in the heart.
(New York Metro, here )