Thank you, Ross, for making sure that post did not get buried and thank you Eric, for posting it in the first place!! LOL! Now, another related thought:
Today as I picked up my son from school, he asked me about my day. I said that something big happened to me today. He said, "Did you get fired?" "No" I answered. "Hired?" "No." "Promoted?" "No." "Demoted?" "Again, no."
Pause. "Well, did you get a box of soup?"
"No, why do you ask that?" I said, suddenly very interested.
"Well, when you get a box of soup, it's a big pain, cause it leaks out all over the place."
I never thot of it that way. A new way of looking at a box of soup. "Them soup boxes is real bad to pack."
Ruthlessly Unsentimental posted a very interesting translation of the Basque's speech to Ennis when he picked up the provisions at the bridge. But it didn't discuss the soup as I recall. And we all have puzzled over the meaning of the soup boxes. Until the exchange with my son, I always thot the soup was powdered or dried and that's why it was in boxes. But now I think the soup is liquid, and we all know by now what liquids mean in the tale of Brokeback Mountain. Especially liquids in containers.