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Ennis, Cassie and the Twists (revised title)
David:
Either way, November would have made for some fireworks!
If Ennis told Jack he was ready and Jack had to go up to Lightning Flat and toss out Randall, imagine that fight!
Or worse, if Ennis had not changed and Jack told him that he was ranching up with Randall... Look out! We know Ennis has a temper.
But Ideally I would like to think that Jack didn't carry out his plan to bring up Randall. He was going to come back to se Ennis in November just as planned. Well, had he not met his unfortunate fate. :'(
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: atz75 on May 09, 2006, 11:58:44 pm ---Oh wow... yet another symbol to dig into! I've never thought much about the guns, though I've always thought they probably mean a lot. It's too late to really ponder in-depth tonight. I'll go seek out the thread on the old board. I haven't ventured back that way for a long time... Thanks for the tip.
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OK, I posted the gun analysis on a new thread. And I noticed, in rereading it, I was wrong -- clancypants DOES mention the holstered gun in the lake scene. So s/he gets the credit for that observation, not me. Anyway, the whole thing is good.
Front-Ranger:
Guilty as charged on the coffeepot handle/clancypants-gun thing. Thanks for posting that IMDB thread, lat. Clancypants is quite a thinker. On the end of the lake scene, Annie Proulx spells it out more clearly than Ang was willing to do (as usual). She said that nothing new was said, nothing changed, nothing resolved. But Jack did make it clear that he couldn't get by on a couple of high-altitude f***s a year, so he was going to have to broaden his friendships. And because Randall was not hacking it as a substitute, he probably did what you said, David (I cannot bring myself to quote it, sob). What Jack told his parents was just talk, likely. He would have said about anything to please his old man. Though I love Jack more than myself even, he was, technically, a liar and a thief.
newyearsday:
Bumping so I can read and reply to this excellent-looking thread when I get home from workie work!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 10, 2006, 11:50:00 am ---Guilty as charged on the coffeepot handle/clancypants-gun thing. Thanks for posting that IMDB thread, lat.
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I was going to post your comment, too, F-R, but then I thought I should let you do it. Since you didn't, let me note that Front-Ranger pointed out the "gun's goin off" line in the story. Good one!
--- Quote from: atz75 on May 10, 2006, 10:55:50 am --- Jack's sad line... "sometime I miss you so much I can hardly stand it" is meant to show that Randall is not satisfying to Jack as an Ennis-substitute.
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Right. If he went off with Randall, he would still miss Ennis so much he could hardly stand it.
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