In the short story, also there's Ennis's
"Sure as hell seem in one piece to me". But that's in the same paragraph as most of Ennis's other such sentences as mentioned by Lee.
In the film - nope. They don't talk about it - or even allude to it, - certainly not after they start the fishing trips.That part of the short story's motel scene has been cut out, except Jack's line about "getting into this again". The film's got a "neither show nor tell" policy going for the whole post motel part - which makes Jack's eventual "high altitude fucks" line stand out and seem all the more significant and conspicuous, as must surely have been the intention.
What they don't talk about tell a lot about them, about their relationship, during the various stages of those 20 years. Pre-TS1 they never talk of girls or sex the way you'd have expected two 19-year old guys to do. (It's more conspicuous in the short story where we get a long list of what they talk about - down to the dogs they've owned and known, but not girls.) Of course once TS1 is past, the story says "they never talked about the sex, let it happen" - so the film's very canon there. Post-reunion they don't talk about sex either - at least not with each other - in the short story they even talk kids and wives and girlfriends while undressing and touching each other.
Despite all the above I've always thought that Ennis's line
"the kind of riding that interested him lasted longer than 8 seconds and had some point to it" was one of his few attempts of obvious innuendo. Of course, the line has been changed in the film to become a straightforward statement/question specifically about the point of rodeo riding, and any original innuendo is lost.
From Dot-matrix
I thought the blue-thing in that first photo was the edge of a granite tombstone. It is after all a cemetary and I assume the Twists haven't always been down on their luck. Maybe ?
Now I have this vision of Jack's granddad, insisting on being the stud duck in the family plot - insisting on having a granite tombstone, towering over the others'.
But I do think it looks like cloth rather than stone.
