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

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Toast:
The New Yorker Magazine

Just a note to remind everyone that it was on October 13, 1997
NINE YEARS AGO
that Annie Proulx saw the publication of
Brokeback Mountain
in this edition of The New Yorker Magazine.

since then it has appeared in their magazine as
a movie review,
a spoken word recording by Suzy Amis
and grist for their cartoons

What if I dont want to be Jack or Ennis.


Thank You Annie and The  New Yorker
for getting Brokeback off to a start.

RebelWithASmile:
I love the ending when Proulx says Jack started to appear in Ennis's dreams. Its so sad, and i always cry when i read it. I also, of course love the whole 'sexless embrace' scene, she really out did anything i have ever read with that scene alone! She is very good.

Rutella:
I have so many favourite lines I can't quote them all (and most of them have been written already) but the prologue hits me so hard, because the first paragraph is full of detail forming this amazing picture of Ennis' desolate life but then finishes with "but he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream". I think this is one of the best beginnings to a story ever because it sums up Ennis, and Ennis and Jack's relationship, and perfectly sets up the story. Sometimes I just read that part before going to sleep and then I too dream of J&E.

Another favourite is from when Ennis finds the shirts:

"He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands"

I love the alliteration here with the smoke, sage and best of all the 'salty sweet stink' and I adore the reference to the 'imagined power' and the way this links with Jack's comment that all they've got is Brokeback. And there in lies the tragedy. 

opinionista:
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.

This is my favorite line. I find it beautiful and symbolic.

Lynne:
Hey all you new members!  Post about your favorite lines here!

There's not a bad line, IMO, but one I like is from the prologue:

'...yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream...[he] lets a panel of the dream slide forward.  If he does not force his attention on it, it might stoke the day, rewarm that old, cold time on the mountain when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong.'

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