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Favorite lines from Proulx's story- an Ode to TOB

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Brown Eyes:
I'll start with a line that always brings a tear for me...

"The huge sadness of the northern plains rolled down on him."
 :'(

belbbmfan:

--- Quote from: atz75 on June 06, 2006, 12:21:47 am ---I'll start with a line that always brings a tear for me...

"The huge sadness of the northern plains rolled down on him."
 :'(

--- End quote ---

Sad, indeed. Maybe I can balance that with... euhh my signature line: 'Ennis, riding against the wind back to the sheep in the treacherous, drunken light, thought he'd never had such a good time, felt he could paw the white out of the moon'
The sheer happiness of his time with Jack, how powerful he feels. Their love really is a force of nature. What a difference to the Ennis before he met Jack 'stoic, a boy with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation'.

nakymaton:
During the day Ennis looked across a great gulf and sometimes saw Jack, a small dot moving across a high meadow as an insect moves across a tablecloth; Jack, in his dark camp, saw Ennis as a night fire, a red spark on the huge mass of black mountain.

The loneliness and longing before the connection...

gattaca:
It's fair to say that I have more than one favorite - but that which comes to my mind right away are those lines which evoke some private, personal sadness (to me):

Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives.

JennyC:

--- Quote from: atz75 on June 06, 2006, 12:21:47 am ---I'll start with a line that always brings a tear for me...

"The huge sadness of the northern plains rolled down on him."
 :'(

--- End quote ---

Amanda,

That line has the same effect on me  :'(.  It's one of my favorites.  And I always wonder why "northern plains".  Is it because the cold and wildness of the northerm plains?  There used to be a thread on IMDB PT discussing the meanings of some lines in the short story. I loved that thread.

As to my favorite, I have many.  You have covered some of them so far.  I will start with:
There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it.
 

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