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"H" is horribilis
« Reply #19170 on: February 28, 2009, 07:42:00 pm »
Annus horribilis -- for Ennis, this is the year he became an orphan.
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"I" is iuventuti
« Reply #19171 on: February 28, 2009, 07:55:56 pm »
On Brokeback Mountain, Jack and Ennis were "flying in the bitter, euphoric air"--iuventuti nil arduum, that is, to the young nothing is difficult.
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"L" is laudator
« Reply #19172 on: March 01, 2009, 12:50:29 am »
After Jack died, Ennis became a laudator temporis acti, a praiser of time past.
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"M" is mortis
« Reply #19173 on: March 01, 2009, 01:43:06 am »
Poor Earl was well beyond the state of rigor mortis when Ennis's father brought him and K.D. out to have a look at him.

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"N" is noli
« Reply #19174 on: March 01, 2009, 02:44:36 am »
Jimbo's reaction to Jack's friendly overture: noli me tangere (don't touch).
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"O" is oleum
« Reply #19175 on: March 01, 2009, 12:20:34 pm »
When Alma pronounced "Jack Nasty", she was adding oil to the fire:  oleum camino.
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"P" is post
« Reply #19176 on: March 01, 2009, 01:03:19 pm »
Post coitus in the Siesta Motel, Ennis and Jack enjoyed a cigarette and Jack said: "Christ, it got to be all that time a yours a horseback makes it so goddam good."
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"R" is respice
« Reply #19177 on: March 01, 2009, 01:30:38 pm »
In refusing Jack's proposal of a sweet life, Ennis advised him to respice finem, to consider the end, namely death.
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"S" is sunt
« Reply #19178 on: March 01, 2009, 01:40:30 pm »
Ennis in the trailer, viewing Jack's shrine:  sunt lacrimae rerum, there are tears for things.
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"T" is toto
« Reply #19179 on: March 01, 2009, 03:29:38 pm »
When Brokeback Mountain  was originally published in The New Yorker, the italicized prologue was omitted in toto.
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