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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 05, 2012, 07:56:18 pm ---That is exactly the kind of trailer I envision Ennis living in, in the prologue to the short story. :)
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--- Quote from: Penthesilea on December 07, 2012, 02:07:07 am ---Me too :).
"the aluminum door" and "the curved length of the trailer" - I think Mrs. Proulx must have had this kind of trailer in her mind when she wrote it.
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Yes, though sans cheery lights, wreathe and tree.
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 09, 2012, 02:43:29 am ---Yes, though sans cheery lights, wreathe and tree.
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
That's why I dubbed it: "Something good must have happened in Ennis' life" ;D
Yes, she's not exactly the cheery type, our Mrs. Proulx. Years ago, after reading the whole collection of Wyoming stories I said something to the effect of 'Even if you had never heard of BBM, by the time you get to the last story of the book, you already know that this can't end well and would so even without the prologue.'
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Sheriff Roland on December 07, 2012, 05:26:37 am ---We had a similar tradition in french Canada, but (as I remember it,) it was part of the New Year's Day shoe-under-the-tree variety. Sounds really wimpy and on the cheap compared to today's Christmases but your picture Chrissi brought back the memory of a mandarine orange, candy cane and a bottle of chocolate milk in the shoe.
Thanks for that, both of you.
I'm thinking, 50 years from now, if the tradition has been way layed, your kids will fondly remember these small special gestures.
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Thanks. When I was a kid, some neighbours used to hang a small bag with Chritmas cookies, nuts and tangerines on our door handle, ring the bell and rush back into their apartments, so they wouldn't been seen. Since I was the only child in our part of the apartment complex, I was lucky on Nikolaus Day. :laugh:
And of course I always knew who the bag was from, I knew my neighbours by their cookies. :laugh:
southendmd:
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on December 24, 2010, 07:04:29 am ---
:)
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If it was Ennis's trailer, it would have been decorated by a large trash can to the side of the door and a scythe on the other side; also a 17 on the mail box.
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