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forsythia12:
"THEY CAME TOGETHER ON PAPER AS HERDER AND CAMP TENDER....."

i just love this line.  the fact that they were 'on paper' together.  they're names...ennis delmar and jack twist on the same peice of paper.  before they even knew each other, they were together on paper.

they're names were also on their post cards, which again, is paper........like the only documentation of their relationship.

any thoughts?

BlissC:
I have to say I've never particularly paid much attention to that line before, but yeah, put like that, it's special. Nice. Nice too that their postcards document the course of their relationship. Only small pieces of paper, but something else that binds them over the years.

I think I'm going to make that my happy thought for the day.

forsythia12:

--- Quote from: BlissC on March 09, 2008, 06:25:44 am ---I have to say I've never particularly paid much attention to that line before, but yeah, put like that, it's special. Nice. Nice too that their postcards document the course of their relationship. Only small pieces of paper, but something else that binds them over the years.

I think I'm going to make that my happy thought for the day.

--- End quote ---

yeah, that line just always stuck out to me.  maybe the fact that they could never get 'married' or that no one really witnesses their love (regardless of alm and agguire catching them).
the paper just means so much to me.  i'm not sure why.
i just liked the fact that their names were on paper together FIRST.  like ,......it was meant to be, or something. 
i think about that peice of paper.  i think about it in agguire's trash can after the boys were hired.....and i just love the symbolism in that.
any thoughts on this?

BlissC:
I guess it's like there is some physical proof out there of their relationship (in that paper trail), and on that piece of paper.

It's a while since I read the story, but I just pulled out my copy of the book and read the first section again, and now I've seen it, that line does jump out at me. It's a kind of hint of what's to come. Like you say it's as though even before they met they were fated to be together somehow.

After your earlier post I had to stick the DVD on again and watch that scene (even though I watched it last night). Again, I've never paid that much notice of the scene in Agguire's office, but yeah, the paper in Agguire's trash can sums up Agguire's view of their relationship all the way through and so much more.

forsythia12:
yeah.  i totally agree.  i  mean i don't know what he did with the piece of paper, but i'm sure it was thrown out with all his cigarrette butts, in some trashcan.  i just think it's neat.  on paper......

...sigh...

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