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On buckets, eagles, impatience, and...
Artiste:
Thanks Front-Ranger!
You sau that he was: half-tumescent !
What is that? Please detail...
hugs!
And Happy Thanksgiving!
Front-Ranger:
There are two meanings of tumescent that applied to Ennis at this time:
1. swelling; slightly tumid.
2. exhibiting or affected with many ideas or emotions; teeming.
Little Ennis was still half-swollen, big Ennis was teeming.
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on November 17, 2007, 10:06:09 pm ---Actually, you'll notice if you look carefully that everytime Jack appears on the mountain, there is some kind of bucket or pot near him. And Ennis seems to be more closely related to the coffeepot. But at certain crucial parts of the story/film, the symbols stand for the other person. Just the same as the animal symbols cross over. Altho Ennis's animal is definitely four-footed, at one point Jack is described as trembling "like a run-out horse." And tho Jack is definitely a winged animal such as the eagle whose feather he wears in his hatband, Ennis is described as lying "spread-eagled" on the bed. So it can be confusing, but also incredibly poignant that, as their stories become enmeshed, so do their symbolic references, and they entertwine like the acoustic and the slide guitars in the musical accompaniments.
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Hey Lee! These are great observations! And, I very much agree about the birds/ feathers/ wind-instruments being associated with Jack. That makes a lot of sense to me. Also, I do agree that sometimes symbols gets mixed up or swapped around between the two characters. The "spread-eagled" phrase is definitely an interesting detail to note from the story... maybe Ennis can be interpreted as being in this position as a direct result of being in Jack's presence. I don't know... maybe it's a stretch... but it does seem to make some sense.
:)
Brown Eyes:
Bumping because buckets and coffeepots are once again hot topics!
8)
Front-Ranger:
People sometimes refer to their "bucket list" and there was a movie on the subject. I wonder how the expression came to be...
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