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"A hundert times" in four years?
Aussie Chris:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on April 30, 2006, 09:15:39 pm ---Oh well, Jeff. Once again, we differ. Your interpretation, I'll admit, is more logical and more soundly based on solid evidence. But mine is more fun AND at least somewhat plausible, and for me both those traits earn high scores when I'm deciding on my interpretation of an ambiguous scene.
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Yeah I'm with you Katherine. Although both alternatives are completely valid and plausible, when I put myself in Ennis' shoes after four years of pining for Jack, there would be more than a little stirring in the loins at the thought of: Friend, this letter is long overdue...
TJ:
In my rural minded opinion and having lived around folks who used the expression "wrang it out" occasionally in conversation, the word has to do considering the answer to something and not figuring it out or trying to figure something out by thinking really hard, like continually putting a piece of wet laundry through a wringer attached to wash tub or a washing machine to get it as dry as possible so that it would only have to hang on the clothes line for a short time.
From the original story:
--- Quote ---(")I never had no thoughts a doin it with another guy except I sure wrang it out a hunderd times thinkin about you. You do it with other guys? Jack?"
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In Ennis's "wringing it out" way of thinking, he just could not understand why he had feelings toward Jack like he did.
That also goes along with what Ennis also said in the Motel Siesta to Jack, "You and me can't hardly be decent together if what happened back there" -- he jerked his head in the direction of the apartment -- "grabs on us like that. We do that in the wrong place we'll be dead. There's no reins on this one. It scares the piss out a me."
kirkmusic:
You ask me, once every two weeks is nothing.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: kirkmusic on May 08, 2006, 02:00:02 am ---You ask me, once every two weeks is nothing.
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When you put it that way -- you're right!!!!
alec716:
--- Quote from: TJ on May 01, 2006, 08:23:05 pm ---In my rural minded opinion and having lived around folks who used the expression "wrang it out" occasionally in conversation, the word has to do considering the answer to something and not figuring it out or trying to figure something out by thinking really hard, like continually putting a piece of wet laundry through a wringer attached to wash tub or a washing machine to get it as dry as possible so that it would only have to hang on the clothes line for a short time.
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Wow, do I feel like an urbanized pervert. :) I also assumed that the "wrang it out" phrase referred to Ennis, shall we say, reliving fond memories of Jack on the mountain -- especially since Annie uses this phrase along with the reference to Jack "riding more than bulls." Maybe Ennis was just thinking about whether he should or how he could contact Jack... can I have half a loaf and decide that he was using the phrase in both meanings? ;)
Which reminds me ... in the motel, when Ennis says he almost gave up on hearing from Jack again, did anyone else want to scream to Ennis, "How many Twist families could there be in Lightening Flat, why didn't you contact his parents to find out where he was?" I guess Ennis was too scared to take responsibility for tracking Jack down.
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