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Fran:

--- Quote from: loneleeb3 on May 14, 2007, 01:21:32 pm ---Also, What is the "welling Plain"?

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Lee, I think you meant "welling prairie." 

I think "welling" means flowing or spreading out, sort of like you'd only see prairie for miles and miles.

loneleeb3:

--- Quote from: Fran on May 14, 2007, 01:38:10 pm ---Lee, I think you meant "welling prairie." 

I think "welling" means flowing or spreading out, sort of like you'd only see prairie for miles and miles.

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Thats it!
Thank you! ;D

moremojo:
Hey guys, I don't remember the term/phrase "welling praririe" in the short story. Could someone cite the spot where it occurs? I do remember the use of "the grieving plain", which is how Ennis sees the land in which Jack's father will inter his son's ashes.

southendmd:
"... a tiny fenced square on the welling prairie."

It's after Ennis leaves the Twist ranch.  He didn't want to think of Jack amongst the plastic flowers and such.

ifyoucantfixit:


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   Bumping down the washboard road Ennis  passed the country cemetary fenced with sagging sheep wire, a tiny fenced square on the welling prairie, a few graves bright with plastic flowers, and didn't want to know Jack was going in there, to be buried on the grieving plain.

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