... none came close to the woman who can write passages like:
One summer evening, their bed spread among the floor among the chips and splinters, they fell to kissing. Rose, in some kind of transport, began to bite her kisses....
"Oh Archie, I didnt mean to hurt,..."
"You did not...It's I aint never been. Loved...feel like I been shot," pulling her into his arms, rolling half over so that the salty tears and saliva wet her embroidered waist shirt, calling her his little birdeen, and at that moment she would have walked into a furnace for him.
Judge, I agree with you a hunerd percent...well, about 98 percent, and thank you for quoting that recent story Those Old Cowboy Songs from AP's most recent book, which I'll bet less than 5% of Brokies have read.
Where I differ from you is when you said that AP has moved on. In a way, maybe she has, but I suspect Jack and Ennis haunt her still. Also, keep in mind that she has recently written the libretto for the opera Brokeback Mountain which will debut in 2013. In it, there is new information, including a scene where Ennis TALKS to the SHIRTS. I can't wait!