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Annie Proulx, classic writer

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moremojo:
For she's a jolly good fellow
For she's a jolly good fellow
For she's a jolly good felloo-oow...
And nobody can deny!

Hey, Toast, thanks for the heads up about our lady's big day today, graced with another sample of your beautiful art.
The great Annie Proulx is seventy-one, now--a venerable grande dame of American letters. Incidentally, in Chinese astrology, she was born in the Year of the Pig (or Boar), a sign under which an unusual number of queens have come into the world.

So, from one queen to another...here's to you, Annie Proulx!

 :)
Scott

horo35:
That looks far out Toast!  Whay program do you use?? Photoshop?  Ohh and of course happy birthday to Annie...where would this forum be with out her?

Toast:
Hi Horo

Fancy running into you again over here
I use Virtual Artist an addon for Paint Shop Pro.
It gives some very good effects.
Toast

Now back to serious discussion about Classic Writer Annie Proulx.

My favourite quote from her (this week) is

The mountain boiled with demonic energy, glazed with flickering broken-cloud light, the wind combed the grass and drew from the damaged krummholz and slit rock a bestial drone. As they descended the slope Ennis felt he was in a slow-motion, but headlong, irreversible fall.

 - beautiful way to describe the guys' feelings on that day.

Morey

nakymaton:
I can't choose a favorite passage. I would have to quote, like, the whole damn story.

Anyway, happy birthday, Annie. :)

Shakesthecoffecan:
I am glad I found this thread. I have read a lot of Annie Proulx's published work and have seem many memorable lines, but one stand out for me as near perfect in describing this story. It is the last line in her essay "Getting Moovied" in the Story to Screenplay book and is set up with a long run on sentence about the attention to detail that made the movie so believable: Ennis's dirty fingernails, Fayette's perfect Texas hair, the two sharing a joint rather than a cigarette, and the speckled enamel coffeepot. Then she concludes:

"People may doubt that young men fall in love up on the snowy heights, but no one disbelieves the speckled coffeepot, and if the coffeepot is true, so is the other."

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