Two Shirts and a Postcard

May 03, 2011 22:22




When it came -- thirty cents -- he pinned it up in his trailer, brass-headed tack in each corner. Below it he drove a nail and on the nail he hung the wire hanger and the two old shirts suspended from it. He stepped back and looked at the ensemble through a few stinging tears.
"Jack, I swear -- " he said, though Jack had never asked him to swear anything and was himself not the swearing kind.

Excerpt from Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx.
Scan from the Japanese movie booklet.

The aesthetics of the photo must have required to take those liberties with the arrangement, but the elements are just there.

;__;

Caught up with Glee and already re-rewatched my favorite bits from the last eight chapters to tide me over until the 19th. Goodbye to watching gems and germs on a row...

T__T

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