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Favorite lines from Proulx's story- an Ode to TOB
gattaca:
--- Quote from: alec716 on June 11, 2006, 09:14:20 pm ---"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."
What are people's interpretations of this line?
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I think the key to a possible interpretation lies a couple of pages earlier. In the story, John Twist tells Ennis that, "He's a goin a split up with his wife and come back here," (bringing Randall with him). "So he says. But like most a Jack's ideas it never come to pass."
So now he knows it had been the tire iron. Annie seems to confirm here that Jack did die violently, and not by Lureen's contrived story over the phone.
So, I think Ennis knows Jack was murdered, but wants to believe otherwise.
gattaca:
I have another favorite line (I have quite a few, actually) - this is near the beginning of the story, where Annie gifts the reader with one of her sparse expositions describing Ennis's physical appearance:
"...balanced a small torso on long, caliper legs, possessed a muscular and supple body made for the horse and for fighting."
...and made for a few other things also, I don't doubt.
alec716:
--- Quote from: gattaca on June 11, 2006, 11:15:41 pm ---I think the key to a possible interpretation lies a couple of pages earlier. In the story, John Twist tells Ennis that, "He's a goin a split up with his wife and come back here," (bringing Randall with him). "So he says. But like most a Jack's ideas it never come to pass."
So now he knows it had been the tire iron. Annie seems to confirm here that Jack did die violently, and not by Lureen's contrived story over the phone.
So, I think Ennis knows Jack was murdered, but wants to believe otherwise.
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Excellent idea. I had not thought much about that angle. Thanks for pulling the thoughts together.
Catglith:
--- 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."
:'(
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Every line towards the end of the book just crushes me, but this line haunted me, So simple, unsentimental, hones and ultimately devastating because of this.
serious crayons:
So many of the lines people have quoted are sad ones. :'( Here's one that's sad but also hints of happiness, and I wish it were better dramatized in the movie:
One thing never changed: the brilliant charge of their infrequent couplings :-* was darkened by the sense of time flying, never enough time, never enough.
:-\
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