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nakymaton:

--- Quote from: latjoreme on September 04, 2006, 11:42:56 am ---I know there have been whole threads dedicated to interpreting the negative meanings of spit -- OMT's spitting as well as all the times Jack or Ennis spits during a conversation to express anger or contempt or dismissal. But I've never considered analyzing spit in the positive sense.
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Well, it's not necessarily positive. There's a difference between swapping spit and spitting. ;D For instance, one is not typically suffused with a sense of pleasure after dreams involving spitting, whereas dreams about swapping spit... ;D

But, you know, spitting into a CUP, as opposed to swapping spit on the lip of a bottle... ;)


--- Quote ---I'll say this, though, if it turns out that Ang plotted out the saliva symbolism so carefully that it included the spit string, I will gain a whole new level of admiration for his genius.

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Actually, he planned it all out carefully, every bit of it, to drive us all completely bonkers.

I'm sending the man my therapy bill.

Penthesilea:

--- Quote from: nakymaton on September 04, 2006, 08:41:38 am ---I don't know what Jude was observing, but we see them drinking when they're far away from one another quite often -- Jack in the two bar scenes and then at the dance benefit, and Ennis waiting for Jack and then when Cassie picks him up.
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Maybe that's what she meant.


--- Quote ---Edit: and I probably shouldn't even mention Old Man Twist spitting into the cup at the end of the movie, should I?

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No, you shouldn't  ;) Not while talking about swapping spit. Urrrgh, what a yucky thought.


--- Quote ---From Katherine:
But I've never considered analyzing spit in the positive sense.
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Spit is also used in a positive way in TS1. Well, not only spit.
with the help of the clear slick and a little spit

So spit as a feature (?) occurs not only in the movie, but already in the story. Like Annie Proulx used very clear and vivid pictures and described things directly and outright. I love her desciptions of the smells of two rooms: Ennis's and Alma's bedroom when Junior is a little baby and the room in the motel Siesta.

Lynne:
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