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henrypie:
The usual caveat: this may have been discussed, perhaps ad nauseum, and I missed it, but it's been playing in my head for the past few days and I don't recall such point, outside of my head:

I know the clock, always ticking down on Jack and Ennis's time together, is a prominent theme: "time to go, cowboy" and "never enough time, never enough" spring to mind as actual spoken instances of the word.

Aguirre has two: "You're wastin your time," and "You boys sure found a way to make the time pass...."

And he throws Ennis a watch. 

In a way I see him as a kind of Father Time, marking the beginning and the ending.  Any other observations of Aguirre, or anyone else, measuring time?

newyearsday:
Great observations about Aguirre, Sarah! I totally agree about the Father Time thing. If I think of anything (other than bringing home some round steak) I'll come back and post it.

Ellemeno:
Fast or slow, I just like that you're startin' a thread, Cowgirl.  :)

These jump to mind from the film:
"All this time and you ain't found no one else to marry?"
"Daddy that was two years ago!"

These come to mind from the story (with a little help from the 'find' feature, and copy and paste):
"Friend this letter is a long time over due."
"I sure wrang it out a hunderd times thinkin about you."
"I got a say this to you one time, Jack, and I ain't foolin."
"Try this one," said Jack, "and I'll say it just one time."
"What Jack remembered and craved in a way he could neither help nor understand was the time that distant summer on Brokeback when Ennis had come up behind him and pulled him close, the silent embrace satisfying some shared and sexless hunger."
"I feel awful bad about Jack. Can't begin to say how bad I feel. I knew him a long time."
"Around that time Jack began to appear in his dreams"
"And he would wake sometimes in grief, sometimes with the old sense of joy and release; the pillow sometimes wet, sometimes the sheets."

Ellemeno:
"I'm commutin' four hours a day."

Meryl:
"Miss Lureen Newsome from right here in Childress, Texas...Oh boy...and her time is...sixteen and nine-tenths seconds."

"My daddy's the hurry.  Expects me home with the car by midnight"

"...all the heifers must of decided to calve at the same time."

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