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

[Meryl]

Though neither Lureen nor Old Man Twist provided Ennis with some of Jack's ashes, he did his best to turn two negatives into a positive by creating a memorial to Jack with the two shirts and a postcard of Brokeback Mountain.

[Fran]

After before Old Man Twist declares, "Tell you what, we got a family plot and he's goin' in it," Ennis doesn't have to be an oddsmaker to figure out that the odds of his leaving with Jack's ashes are slim to none.

[Toast]

Story Lureen tells why Jack was cremated; and that his cremains were partitioned for his Texas and Wyoming families:

The little Texas voice came slip-sliding down the wire. "We put a stone up. He use to say he wanted to be cremated, ashes scattered on Brokeback Mountain. I didn't know where that was. So he was cremated, like he wanted, and like I say, half his ashes was interred here, and the rest I sent up to his folks. I thought Brokeback Mountain was around where he grew up. But knowing Jack, it might be some pretend place where the bluebirds sing and there's a whiskey spring."

[memento]

When Ennis went to visit Jack's parents, he encountered (as described by Proulx): "A porch stretched across the front of the tiny brown stucco house, four rooms, two down, two up."

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[southendmd]

Because of OMT's stinginess, Ennis left, not with Jack's ashes, but with two bloody shirts.

[Fran]

Ennis learned about Jack's last wishes after he telephoned Lureen.

[Toast]

Even though Ennis couldn't obtain Jack's ashes for spreading on Brokeback, he did not leave unrewarded:  Mrs. Twist pointed him to Jack's room where he found two bloody shirts from 1963.

[southendmd]

Although Ennis did volunteer to scatter Jack's ashes on Brokeback Mountain, OMT would have none of it.

[Fran]

Mrs. Twist shows her wifely deference to her husband when she says not one little word about her  wishes in regard to Jack's ashes.

[Toast]

The screenplays and movie make few xcisions in the fabric of Annie Proulx's tale; one of the largest xcisions is the flashback to Jack's words that occurs in the story as Ennis mulls the information he is receiving from Mr. and Mrs. Twist:

So now he knew it had been the tire iron. He stood up, said, you bet he'd like to see Jack's room, recalled one of Jack's stories about this old man. Jack was dick-clipped and the old man was not; it bothered the son who had discovered the anatomical disconformity during a hard scene. He had been about three or four, he said, always late getting to the toilet, struggling with buttons, the seat, the height of the thing and often as not left the surroundings sprinkled down. The old man blew up about it and this one time worked into a crazy rage. "Christ, he licked the stuffin out a me, knocked me down on the bathroom floor, whipped me with his belt. I thought he was killin me. Then he says, 'You want a know what it's like with piss all over the place? I'll learn you,' and he pulls it out and lets go all over me, soaked me, then he throws a towel at me and makes me mop up the floor, take my clothes off and warsh them in the bathtub, warsh out the towel, I'm bawlin and blubberin. But while he was hosin me down I seen he had some extra material that I was missin. I seen they'd cut me different like you'd crop a ear or scorch a brand. No way to get it right with him after that."