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isabelle:
I am sorry if this has been discussed before, and please let me know (and send me packing if it has), but I do not remember:

I wonder why Jack had to wait four years before he got in touch with Ennis again.

Any thoughts on this? Nothing I can think of sounds very convincing to me.

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: isabelle on November 29, 2006, 08:44:46 pm ---I am sorry if this has been discussed before, and please let me know (and send ma packing) if it has, but I do not remember:
--- End quote ---

Send you packing, are you kidding? Isabelle, I'm so glad to see you around!

Unfortunately, I don't have a great answer. I guess if anything, I would say Jack probably assumed it was over after they parted in Signal, especially when Ennis didn't show up the following summer. So he went about trying to make a life for himself. Except everything he tried -- rodeoin, Jimbo, marriage -- was unsuccessful or unsatisfying. Finally, stuck in an unexciting marriage, working for obnoxious in-laws, he probably got desperate or brave enough to take another shot at Ennis. His postcard implies he will just happen to be passing through town on the 24th en route to something else, but after receiving Ennis' encouraging "YOU BET" response, it sure doesn't look like Jack has anywhere else in mind.

isabelle:
Thanks Katherine  :); that's right, he must have felt he ought to simply forget about Ennis after being told to get lost by Aguirre.

Isn't ironical that we tend to (or I do) get in touch again with old flames once we feel it's safe (ongoing relationship, maybe kids), so that it won't look like "hey baby, it's me! Will you take me back? Like, right now?".

Makes sense.

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: isabelle on November 30, 2006, 04:47:03 am ---Isn't ironical that we tend to (or I do) get in touch again with old flames once we feel it's safe (ongoing relationship, maybe kids), so that it won't look like "hey baby, it's me! Will you take me back? Like, right now?"
--- End quote ---

So true. And yet, often we're secretly thinking that, hunh? I mean, we don't get in touch with old flames -- at least, I don't -- while delirious with happiness in my current relationship.

Daniel:
I think it was because there was a sense of finality in their last parting, even though Jack said: "Well, see ya around." Ennis's reply was hardly committal. I also think that Jack didn't realize how in love he was with Ennis until after he had spent some time on Rodeo tour, as per Meditation 27 of the Daily Meditations.

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