“Scene a Brokeback Mountain.”
“Over in Fremont County?”
“No, north a here.”
“I didn’t order none a them. Let me get the order list. They got it I can get you a hunderd. I got a order some more cards anyway.” “One’s enough,” said Ennis.
When it came—thirty cents—he pinned it up in his trailer, brassheaded tack1 in each corner. Below it he drove a nail and on the nail he hung the wire hanger2 and the two old shirts suspended from it. He stepped back and looked at the ensemble3 through a few stinging tears.
“Jack4, I swear—“ he said, though Jack had never asked him to swear anything and was himself not the swearing kind. Around that time Jack began to appear in his dreams, Jack as he had first seen him, curly-headed and smiling and bucktoothed, talking about getting up off his pockets and into the control zone, but the can of beans with the spoon handle jutting5 out and balanced on the log was there as well, in a cartoon shape and lurid6 colors that gave the dreams a flavor of comic obscenity. The spoon handle was the kind that could be used as a tire iron. And he would wake sometimes in grief, sometimes with the old sense of joy and release; the pillow sometimes wet, sometimes the sheets.
There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it.
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n.大头钉;假缝,粗缝 | |
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n.吊架,吊轴承;挂钩 | |
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3 ensemble | |
n.合奏(唱)组;全套服装;整体,总效果 | |
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4 jack | |
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克 | |
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5 jutting | |
v.(使)突出( jut的现在分词 );伸出;(从…)突出;高出 | |
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6 lurid | |
adj.可怕的;血红的;苍白的 | |
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