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

[Toast]

Here is some of the zoography that Annie Proulx included in her story Brokeback Mountain:

a goddamn pup tent that smells like cat piss or worse
a mouse-coloured grullo
two tough old birds (not the Thanksgiving turkeys, either)
trembling like a run-out horse

[Toast]

Round 338

Ennis and Jack,
the dogs,
horses and mules,
a thousand ewes and their lambs
flowed up the trail
like dirty water
through the timber
and out above the tree line
into the
great flowery meadows
and the coursing, endless wind.
[Proulx]

[opinionista]

"The author's first stories, twenty years ago, were all about hunting and fishing -"hook-and-bullet material" written for a men's-magazine editor who thought he couldn't publish a contributor called Annie. He suggested "something like Joe or Zack, retrievers' names," the author recalls. The compromise was initials: E.A. Proulx The E. somehow stuck. (The author won the Pulitzer Prize as E. Annie Proulx.) The author is now sixty-three, and "Brokeback Mountain" is the first story published by just Annie." [The New Yorker, 1997, p. 75]

[memento]

Ennis tried to beat around the bush when Alma started questioning his "fishing trips" with Jack.

[Toast]

[Brokeback Mountain] tells the story of two young men - a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy - who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a life-long connection, one whose complications, joys, and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love.   [Production Notes]

[Fran]

From the story:

Again the ranch is on the market and they've shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, "Give 'em to the real estate shark, I'm out a here, dropping the keys in Ennis's hand.

[Meryl]

The outburst of rage that L.D.'s behavior with the television set engendered in Jack was a shock to everyone at the table.

[Toast]

Jack did not enjoy flouting Forest Service regulations; partly for creature comfort reasons. and partly for human companionship as well.

[southendmd]

Jack was always grousing about something:  the weather, Aguirre's rules, the food, and later, the lack of nookie.

[memento]

Jack was holding up his end of the bargain when he said: "It's nobody's business but ours."