The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[memento]

Ennis wasn't a fancy dresser, but he wore his best shirt especially for Jack.

[Toast]

Annie Proulx described the day that Ennis eagerly awaited the arrival of Jack Twist:

The day was hot and clear in the morning, but by noon the clouds had pushed up out of the west rolling a little sultry air before them. Ennis, wearing his best shirt, white with wide black stripes, didn't know what time Jack would get there and so had taken the day off, paced back and forth, looking down into a street pale with dust.

[Fran]

Proulx wrote:

     "How much is once in a while?" said Jack.  "Once in a while ever four fuckin' years?"
     "No," said Ennis, forbearing to ask whose fault that was.  "I goddamn hate it that you're goin' a drive away in the mornin' and I'm goin' back to work.  But if you can't fix it, you got a stand it," he said.  "Shit.  I been lookin' at people on the street.  This happen a other people?  What the hell do they do?"
     "It don't happen in Wyomin' and if it does, I don't know what they do, maybe go to Denver," said Jack, sitting up, turning away from him, "and I don't give a flyin' fuck.  Son of a bitch, Ennis, take a couple days off.  Right now.  Get us out a here.  Throw your stuff in the back a my truck and let's get up in the mountains.  Couple a days.  Call Alma up and tell her you're goin'.  Come on, Ennis, you just shot my airplane out a the sky -- give me somethin' a go on.  This ain't no little thing that's happenin' here."

[southendmd]

Jack griped about his rodeo war wounds and Ennis gripped something else.

[Meryl]

Jack finds his plan for living together with Ennis blocked by Ennis's hidebound ideas of what is acceptable.

[Toast]

Jack's visit to Riverton in 1967 dredged up all the feelings created in that influential summer on Brokeback Mountain.

[southendmd]

After jouncing a bed, Jack enjoined Ennis for a junket in the mountains.

[Fran]

At the Motel Siesta, story Ennis placed limitations on how the relationship would proceed when he told Jack, "All I can see is we get together once in a while way the hell out in the back a nowhere...."

[Toast]

Story Ennis reminded Jack that they were both maritally connected, and that they had to take their wives and children seriously:

"I doubt there's nothin now we can do," said Ennis. "What I'm sayin, Jack, I built a life up in them years. Love my little girls. Alma? It ain't her fault. You got your baby and wife, that place in Texas.

[memento]

Instead of going to the Knife and Fork, Jack and Ennis nibbled on each other.