Author Topic: What's your favorite line/quotation from the Short Story?? (Read 138794 times)

camellia · « **Reply #60 on:** Aug 10, 2006, 04:46 PM »

I thought of one more
"He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salthy sweet stink of Jack buth there was no real scent, only the memory if it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands."

jesseanne21 · « **Reply #61 on:** Aug 10, 2006, 04:49 PM »

Quote from: camellia on Aug 10, 2006, 04:46 PM

I thought of one more
"He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salthy sweet stink of Jack buth there was no real scent, only the memory if it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands."

I love that one, too...it's like poetry!

Rosie · « **Reply #62 on:** Aug 11, 2006, 07:19 AM »

He called Jacks number in Childress, something he had done only once before when Alma divorced him and Jack had misunderstood the reason for the call, had driven twelve hundred miles north for nothing........ :\'( :\'(

Annie Proulx wastes no words when she gives you a punch to the heart.The sentence lasts half a minute to read, it depressed me thinking about it for a lot longer than that I can tell you! That's the power of her writing.

I know I keep coming back here, but the truth is I have so many favourites that I just can't help myself.

hpv · « **Reply #63 on:** Aug 11, 2006, 07:41 AM »

"The stale coffee is boiling up but he catches it before it goes over the side, pours it into a stained cup and blows on the black liquid, lets a panel of the dream slide forward. If he does not force his attention on it, it might stoke the day, rewarm that old, cold time on the mountain
when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong"......

Rosie · « **Reply #64 on:** Aug 11, 2006, 09:41 AM »

Quote from: hpv on Aug 11, 2006, 07:41 AM

rewarm that old, cold time on the mountain
when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong"......

ooooh yesss....hpv... another favourite. I wanted to put that one on the left of my profile but it wouldn't fit, so I had to settle with just the last part. Oh my, I would like to put the whole book on the left of my profile!

FulOfSadness · « **Reply #65 on:** Aug 11, 2006, 12:48 PM »

...yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream

This line is too much, even the frist time i read it, it got me good.

His chest was heaving. He could smell Jack-the intensely familiar odor of cigarettes, musky sweat and a faint sweetness like grass, and with it the rushing cold of the mountain.

so hot

They went off in Jack's truck, bought a bottle of whisky and within twenty minutes were in the Motel Siesta jouncing a bed.

ditto

You do it with other guys? Jack?
"Shit no," said Jack, who had been riding more than bulls, not rolling his own.

This is one of my favorites

greenfrog · « **Reply #66 on:** Aug 17, 2006, 12:16 AM »

Quote from: FulOfSadness on Aug 06, 2006, 12:48 PM

Theres a couple of lines in the book that i thought were bad like "Sometimes i miss you so much i could whip babies" Thats just corny. And also the "gun's goin' off" > Thats great, but i laugh when i read it.

I love the "guns's going off" line.

hpv · « **Reply #67 on:** Aug 17, 2006, 12:26 AM »

Another one-on the mountain..when they really started to feel/miss each other IMHO...

"During the day Ennis looked across a great gulf and sometimes saw Jack, a small dot moving across a high meadow as an insect moves across a tablecloth; Jack, in his dark camp, saw Ennis as night fire, a red spark on the huge black mass of mountain. "

greenfrog · « **Reply #68 on:** Aug 17, 2006, 08:24 PM »

"What Jack remembered and craved in a way he could neither help nor understand was the time that distant summer on Brokeback when Ennis had comeup behind him and pulled him close, the silent embrace satisfying some shared and sexless hunger."

androphile · « **Reply #69 on:** Aug 18, 2006, 12:08 PM »

"Little darlin'". Yes, I'm a soft touch, but it's the single, solitary time in the story when Ennis addresses an endearment to Jack. Oh, how I wish it had made it into the film. <sigh> Still, the sweet little nuzzle Ennis gives Jack at that point conveys a similar feeling visually.

greenfrog · « **Reply #70 on:** Aug 18, 2006, 07:22 PM »

I will alway love "Little darlin'" :\'(

FulOfSadness · « **Reply #71 on:** Aug 18, 2006, 07:46 PM »

I'm glad he only calls Jack lil' darlin' only once, because it makes such a big impact. I don't like how some 'nameless' fanfictions always have Ennis refering to Jack as darlin' it gets annoying, IMO. and it just comes out bad

greenfrog · « **Reply #72 on:** Aug 24, 2006, 01:57 AM »

Quote from: FulOfSadness on Aug 18, 2006, 07:46 PM

I'm glad he only calls Jack lil' darlin' only once, because it makes such a big impact. I don't like how some 'nameless' fanfictions always have Ennis refering to Jack as darlin' it gets annoying, IMO. and it just comes out bad

True . . . The less it is used, the more powerful it becomes when said.

FulOfSadness · « **Reply #73 on:** Aug 24, 2006, 04:49 PM »

Quote from: greenfrog on Aug 24, 2006, 01:57 AM

Quote from: FulOfSadness on Aug 18, 2006, 07:46 PM
I'm glad he only calls Jack lil' darlin' only once, because it makes such a big impact. I don't like how some 'nameless' fanfictions always have Ennis refering to Jack as darlin' it gets annoying, IMO. and it just comes out bad

True . . . The less it is used, the more powerful it becomes when said.

Agreed

greenfrog · « **Reply #74 on:** Aug 29, 2006, 10:12 PM »

Quote from: hpv on Aug 17, 2006, 12:26 AM

Another one-on the mountain..when they really started to feel/miss each other IMHO...

"During the day Ennis looked across a great gulf and sometimes saw Jack, a small dot moving across a high meadow as an insect moves across a tablecloth; Jack, in his dark camp, saw Ennis as night fire, a red spark on the huge black mass of mountain. "

So beautiful . . . and sad :\'( :\'( :\'(

hpv · « **Reply #75 on:** Sep 20, 2006, 01:00 AM »

Something cute...

" Happy to switch but give you warnin I can't cook worth a shit. Pretty good with a can opener."

tpe · « **Reply #76 on:** Sep 22, 2006, 07:06 AM »

I love that line with the can opener.

welshwitch · « **Reply #77 on:** Sep 25, 2006, 04:00 PM »

"See you in the mornin'" when there are to be no more mornings when they wake up together. Gets me every time.

Philchel · « **Reply #78 on:** Oct 07, 2006, 10:55 AM »

I ordered 'Close range Wyoming stories' today and will have to wait 6 to 7 weeks to know whether it still can be delivered here in Belgium (translated versions anyway not available anymore since March 06).
Apparently only version they could try to obtain is the English Hard back version to come from the US.

Also ordered the Dutch version of BBM, edited here as 'Twee Cowboys' => '2 Cowboys' (but last info they had is that only 45 copies left in March06).

I cross fingers and can't wait to read them ...

hpv · « **Reply #79 on:** Oct 16, 2006, 04:02 PM »

Well, how about

"gun's goin off,"

LiLdoggie · « **Reply #80 on:** Oct 29, 2006, 10:29 AM »

"During the day Ennis looked across a great gulf and sometimes saw Jack, a small dot moving across a high meadow as an insect moves across a tablecloth; Jack in his dark camp, saw Ennis as night fire, a red spark on the huge black mass of mountain."

This, in the beginning of the story, just exemplifies the distance that would always be between Ennis and Jack.

greenfrog · « **Reply #81 on:** Oct 29, 2006, 06:48 PM »

Quote from: hpv on Sep 20, 2006, 01:00 AM

Something cute...

Pretty good with a can opener."

That line is so cute

Short Leash · « **Reply #82 on:** Oct 29, 2006, 10:36 PM »

Quote

This, in the beginning of the story, just exemplifies the distance that would always be between Ennis and Jack

I never thought of that, very interesting symbolism.

LuvJackNasty · « **Reply #83 on:** Oct 29, 2006, 10:48 PM »

I never looked at it that way either- lildoggie

shakestheground · « **Reply #84 on:** Nov 09, 2006, 11:58 AM »

"I can't get by on a couple of high altitude f**ks"

hpv · « **Reply #85 on:** Nov 09, 2006, 12:37 PM »

" There were only the two of them on the mountain flying in the euphoric, bitter air, looking down on the hawk's back and the crawling lights of vehicles on the plain below, suspended above ordinary affairs and distant from tame ranch dogs barking in the dark hours. They believed themselves invisible..."

Little they know..

tizi17 · « **Reply #86 on:** Nov 28, 2006, 11:48 AM »

You do it with other guys? Jack?
"Shit no," said Jack, who had been riding more than bulls, not rolling his own.

anybody please that can help me with this, my english is not so perfect...
i wonder since the first time i read it: does AP want us to understand that jack was telling lies, not true in his speaking, meaning he had been "riding" others, and wants to show us part of jack's character? the same question comes up in the end when she writes about jack "and was not himself the swearing kind.." - can't stop thinking about this.

thanks for helping!
tizi

chameau · « **Reply #87 on:** Nov 30, 2006, 12:24 AM »

What was said here before and I agree with it:

By riding more than bulls, Jack was not a virgin and Ennis was not his first experience with a man. About your other question I have to figure it out.

tizi17 · « **Reply #88 on:** Nov 30, 2006, 02:49 AM »

that would be nice, thank you

- keeps wondering in my head....

tizi

LuvJackNasty · « **Reply #89 on:** Nov 30, 2006, 08:21 PM »

I always took not rolling his own as him not masturbating but rather going with other men to fulfill his needs. I don't know if I interpet the riding more than bulls as Jack not being a virgin when he met Ennis but I do interpret that as him being with other men during those four years after BBM- thus the not rolling his own. I think it does show bit of Jack's character- I don't believe Jack to be a liar necessarily- meaning in a malicious way- there are certain things that Jack changes to appease Ennis- I'm not queer- Me neither, the ranch foreman's wife. All he wanted was Ennis and admitting he had been with other men or that he was queer could have meant losing Ennis. I'm not saying Jack is right to lie but I can understand where he is coming from- he is between a rock and a hard place. I think having to deny who he really was took it's toll on Jack in the end. I think it's shows Jack's conflict- to me Jack was more accepting of his sexuality than Ennis was and if having to deny he was queer was a way to keep Ennis then that's what he was going to do. Telling Ennis about other men would mean that this "thing" was not between the two of them and then Jack is in fact queer and then Ennis may have to start looking at himself that way too.

**Edited** Okay I did some thinking about the swearing- I'm assuming they never made promises to each other nor demanded things from each other so for Ennis to say "Jack I swear" it was extremely powerful- Here is a man who was so closed mouth and for him to swear to something means that he is feeling both the love and loss of Jack so very completely.