The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Meryl]

olitely receiving Ennis at the ranch, Mrs. Twist offered him a collation of coffee and cherry cake.

[Fran]

^{eter Orr, Casey Smith, Darrell Croft, Lloyd Pollock, and Ken Hart are credited with performing the traditional song "Battle Hymn of the Republic" in the film Brokeback Mountain.}

[Sason]

anicking from encountering a furred entity, Ennis's mule took off and scattered food everywhere.

[southendmd]

anicking from encountering a furred entity, Ennis's mule took off and scattered food everywhere.

=thanks= Sonja
 

=aside= Sandy
The doctor is about to leave the house!
I'll see y'all in a week or so!

[Meryl]

roulx articulates their agony so well - they love each other, but duty and society of the time dictates they should forget each other, raise a family, love their wives. Their only chance to be together is to sneak off on annual fishing and hunting trips - manly pursuits - to evade discovery. The places where their love is consummated are the inhospitable locales Proulx favours for her settings. Just as Quoyle is isolated in the wilds of coastal Newfoundland in The Shipping News, Ennis and Jack retreat physically and socially to the periphery of society. There are only two main characters to speak of but the landscape comes alive in Proulx's writing. A "tea-coloured river ran fast with snowmelt, a scarf of bubbles at every high rock" and dawn is a "glassy orange", and "pollened catkins like yellow thumbprints" hang about in the forest.

It's a tender story, but grippingly told. We can smell the danger all around them. A supervisor may have seen them on the mountain; Ennis' wife Alma suspects them. Jack tells Ennis a gruesome story of two local men he knew who lived the way they wanted to and paid for it. It's a harbinger for their doomed love but neither man wants to take the risk, despite being torn up by his feelings for the other.

--Excerpted from a review in Bibliofemme by Sinead Gleeson

http://www.bibliofemme.com/others/brokeback.shtml

Aside=Paul
Have a wonderful trip, Doc! 

[Fran]

^{eter Orr, Casey Smith, Darrell Croft, Lloyd Pollock, and Ken Hart are credited with performing the traditional song "Battle Hymn of the Republic" in the film Brokeback Mountain.}

=aside= Paul
Have fun.  (If you're lucky, the "Q" round will
be over and done with by the time you return.)

[memento]

roulx articulates their agony so well - they love each other, but duty and society of the time dictates they should forget each other, raise a family, love their wives. Their only chance to be together is to sneak off on annual fishing and hunting trips - manly pursuits - to evade discovery. The places where their love is consummated are the inhospitable locales Proulx favours for her settings. Just as Quoyle is isolated in the wilds of coastal Newfoundland in The Shipping News, Ennis and Jack retreat physically and socially to the periphery of society. There are only two main characters to speak of but the landscape comes alive in Proulx's writing. A "tea-coloured river ran fast with snowmelt, a scarf of bubbles at every high rock" and dawn is a "glassy orange", and "pollened catkins like yellow thumbprints" hang about in the forest.

--Excerpted from a review in Bibliofemme by Sinead Gleeson

http://www.bibliofemme.com/others/brokeback.shtml

=aside= Meryl
Thank you.

aside=Paul
Have a great trip!!

[Meryl]

ulling at her mother's dress, little Alma made a serious request, lisping, "Mama, I need crayons."

[Fran]

^{ierre-Simon Lebrun-Chaput, François Lord, Alexandre Lafortune, Matthew Rouleau, Philippe Sylvain, Robin Tremblay, Bruno-Olivier Laflamme, and Jean-François Lafleur are credited as 3D artists in the end credits for the film Brokeback Mountain.}

[Ellemeno]

ie-focused, Ennis was none-too-friendly when Cassie approached the table.