'Brokeback Mountain'

[fiefoe]

Annie Proulx. (via)

• He had wanted to be a sophomore, felt the word carried a kind of distinction.
• Ennis and Jack, the dogs, the horses and mules, a thousand ewes and their lambs flowed up the trail like dirty water through the timber and out above the tree line into the great flowery meadows and the coursing, endless wind.
• Ennis, ... thought he’d never had such a good time, felt he could paw the white out of the moon.
• 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,
• The boneless blue was so deep, said Jack, that he might drown looking up.
• Jack said he was doing all right but he missed Ennis bad enough sometimes to make him whip babies.
• All the travellin I ever done is goin around the coffeepot lookin for the handle.
• Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives.
  

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