Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5490409 times)

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"K" is kinsmen
« Reply #5900 on: August 09, 2006, 05:21:08 pm »
Uncle Harold, who got a reprieve from death by pneumonia, was one of Jack's kinsmen.

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"L" is loom
« Reply #5901 on: August 09, 2006, 05:22:09 pm »
"It is an eerie sensation to see events you have imagined in the privacy of your mind, and tried hopelessly to transmit to others through little black marks on a page, loom up before you in an overwhelming visual experience."
(Annie Proulx on seeing the film for the first time, in “Getting Movied”.)
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"M" is Madres
« Reply #5902 on: August 09, 2006, 05:27:02 pm »
"Years on years they worked their way through the high meadows and mountain drainages, horse-packing into the Big Horns, Medicine Bows, south end of the Gallatins, Absarokas, Granites, Owl Creeks, the Bridger-Teton Range, the Freezeouts and the Shirleys, Ferrises and the Rattlesnakes, Salt River Range, into the Wind Rivers over and again, the Sierra Madres, Gros Ventres, the Washakies, Laramies, but never returning to Brokeback."  [story]

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"N" is noises
« Reply #5903 on: August 09, 2006, 05:29:51 pm »
They never talked about the sex, let it happen, at first only in the tent at night, then in the full daylight with the hot sun striking down, and at evening in the fire glow, quick, rough, laughing and snorting, no lack of noises, but saying not a goddamn word except once Ennis said, "I'm not no queer," and Jack jumped in with "Me neither.   [short story]
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"O" is oblige
« Reply #5904 on: August 09, 2006, 06:23:13 pm »
Jack wanted to meet after four years, and Ennis was more than willing to oblige.
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"P" is practically
« Reply #5905 on: August 09, 2006, 07:08:52 pm »
In fact, Ennis was so willing to oblige that he practically flew down the stairs to greet and hug the just-arrived Jack (not to mention to kiss the living daylights out of him).

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"Q" is quiver
« Reply #5906 on: August 09, 2006, 07:09:46 pm »
There was a quiver in Jack's voice when he said, "I miss you so much I can hardly stand it."
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"R" is ranches
« Reply #5907 on: August 09, 2006, 07:16:59 pm »
They were raised on small, poor ranches in opposite corners of the state, Jack Twist in Lightning Flat up on the Montana border, Ennis del Mar from around Sage, near the Utah line, ...    [ First line in the short story as publiished in the New Yorker Magazine. ]
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"S" is straits
« Reply #5908 on: August 09, 2006, 07:19:48 pm »
Visibly in dire straits, Ennis crumpled and cried out his pain and misery after having watched Jack drive away.
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"T" is tamer
« Reply #5909 on: August 09, 2006, 07:23:11 pm »
Jack was the tamer of the wild beast in Ennis.
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