Brokeback Bartleby
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Melville 1853):
"'Will you, or will you not, quit me?' I now demanded in a sudden passion, advancing close to him. 'I would prefer not to quit you,' he replied."
“Brokeback Mountain” (Proulx 1997):
“'...You’re too much for me, Ennis, you son of a whoreson bitch. I wish I knew how to quit you.'”
Ah, sometimes grading brings out felicitous juxtapositions.
"'Will you, or will you not, quit me?' I now demanded in a sudden passion, advancing close to him. 'I would prefer not to quit you,' he replied."
“Brokeback Mountain” (Proulx 1997):
“'...You’re too much for me, Ennis, you son of a whoreson bitch. I wish I knew how to quit you.'”
Ah, sometimes grading brings out felicitous juxtapositions.