Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5488856 times)

Offline Toast

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"I" is influx
« Reply #12530 on: April 12, 2007, 01:44:45 pm »
The influx of urine into the sink was diluted and flushed away by the water from the faucet.
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"J" is jumped-up
« Reply #12531 on: April 12, 2007, 02:08:03 pm »
The sink probably had a jumped-up sense of its own importance due to Ennis's upgrading it to a dual-use appliance.
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"L" is latrine
« Reply #12532 on: April 12, 2007, 02:13:19 pm »
The sink serves a double-duty purpose as a latrine.
« Last Edit: April 12, 2007, 02:16:23 pm by Memento »

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"M" is multipurpose
« Reply #12533 on: April 12, 2007, 02:29:21 pm »
This is Ennis's last day using the multipurpose sink, since he has to be out of there with his horse trailer that morning.
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"N" is non-standard
« Reply #12534 on: April 12, 2007, 02:46:44 pm »
If the flush toilet was outdoors, Ennis's non-standard use of the sink was an understandable shortcut.
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"O" is overspread
« Reply #12535 on: April 12, 2007, 04:09:21 pm »
Ennis was overspread "with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream."

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"P" is pleasure
« Reply #12536 on: April 12, 2007, 04:32:25 pm »
"He might have to stay with his married daughter until he picks up another job, yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream."

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"R" is Range's
« Reply #12537 on: April 12, 2007, 05:28:51 pm »
The italicized prologue was not included in the New Yorker version; it was, however, included in Close Range's pages.
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"S" is swathes
« Reply #12538 on: April 12, 2007, 05:32:15 pm »
Ennis "shuffles to the gas burner, pours leftover coffee in a chipped enamel pan; the flame swathes it in blue."

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"T" is text
« Reply #12539 on: April 12, 2007, 05:36:44 pm »
The movie Brokeback Mountain is extremely faithful to the text of Annie Proulx's short story.  However none of the ideas or text from the prologue show up in the film.
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