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The Classic Chinese Literary Dimension -- by stevme

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TOoP/Bruce:
Re: Brokeback: The Classic Chinese Literary dimension   
  by Dancing_Bear     (Sun Nov 26 2006 07:58:35 )   
   
Thank you for bumping up this great thread! The moon and clouds have other symbolism but I wonder if it pertains here - I've read that clouds (particularly around a mountain) symbolize delusion and the mountain is the immovable self, so if that imagery holds true in an Asian way, then Brokeback symbolizes Jack and Ennis as they truly are, but any clouds would be the obstacles that get in their way of seeing this. Sorry, have trouble expressing it, maybe someone more versed in this imagery can say it better. Also, people wear many 'clothes', for instance Ennis wears the clothes of a husband, a daddy, a cowboy, he changes his 'clothes' every day, every minute, depending on circumstance - but the mountain he is inside doesn't change.

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