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

[memento]

When Alma asks Ennis if his friend would like to have coffee, he replies with the off-the-wall remark that "he's from Texas".

[Toast]

Alma:  "You still go fishin with that Jack Twist?"
Ennis:  "Some."
He thought she'd take the pattern off the plate with the scraping.
.... ...
"Don't lie, don't try to fool me, Ennis. I know what it means. Jack Twist? Jack Nasty. You and him -- "    [short story]

[ekeby]

In the nearly twenty years they knew each other, Jack and Ennis thought of each other a proverbial (if not a literal) quintillion times . . . .

[ProwlAmongUs]

Ennis was ok being intimate with Jack in the middle of nowhere, but the idea of being more open about it near civilization made him restless.

[southendmd]

Ennis was suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream. prologue to story

[Mikaela]

As Ennis waited anxiously and impatiently for Jack to arrive for their reunion in -67, he was the very image of a man on tenterhooks.

=aside=
Wow! This place has been incredibly busy the last day!
And thank you all for the congrats on my first 500 posts! Couldn't have done it without you! 

[Toast]

Thanksgiving at the Monroe household:
 It’s cheering to see that everyone can be civil, but even Capriccio Espagnol burbling out of the telly can’t cover the rage unleashed in Ennis when he is confronted in the kitchen by Alma with the real reason for his frequent trips back to nature.     Quiet mastery .. JWR.

[ekeby]

You would have thought Old Man Twist had a personal
vendetta against Ennis, so mean-spirited was his narrative . . . .

[Mikaela]

The pickup was old, no heater, one windshield wiper and bad tires, when the transmission went there was no money to fix it.
(From the short story)

[Toast]

Randy Quaid: Aguirre is a cards-close-to-the-vest type; he looks at Ennis and Jack as xpendable.   [Production Notes]