Storytelling at its best, as always. A few of the stand-out sentences for me:
He'd become curious about me; Jack had a "type" he was attracted to back then but didn't realize it.
This strikes a chord and makes me wonder why we are drawn to the people we choose to love, it’s always been a question I’ve had. And did Ennis also have a “type”, or was Jack, in any guise, always Jack, to him?
…delicate webs of connection that are invisible to most people. They possess a sensitivity that enables them, like a spider that feels the vibrations of a struggling fly, to look at a man and know he is stuck. Elliot was the spider king.
Sad that Ennis sees himself as “being stuck”….I like “delicate webs of connection”. Is this reference to Elliot also meant to show Ennis that way…..or perhaps just the opposite??
Love the way you slipped this in …whereas I was in torment for four fucking years
……..he would take your name away. He would make sure that your name disappeared from the story of his life even if he couldn't erase you as a character.
This is chilling, that Jack could just hit delete if you hurt him….
AWWW Ennis clearly has a type because when he was a teenager and talking to Jack Tornado on the phone, he imagined him looking the way Jack Twist does. When he discovered that JackTornado was actually named Chris Perkins and had red hair and glasses, he was devastated. But as he tells himself in that early chapter, just because Jack Tornado looked nothing like the way he imagined him, as Chris Perkins he still cared about Ennis. But (if I recall correctly), he reflects that if they had been in school together, he would not have sought out Chris as a friend because he sensed that Chris was another misfit and Ennis wanted to belong to the mainstream. It was a scene from About A Boy that gave me this idea. In that movie, the main character is rejected by the two misfit boys he is drawn to because, they tell him, they make a bigger target if there are three of them.
Ennis now sees that he was stuck, but he wasn't conscious of that at the time. Looking back, he can see that certain people seemed to get him before he did himself. He is alluding to Elliot having even greater powers of perception than the others mentioned… which will become more evident later in the story.
It surprised me that readers were surprised about Lureen. I thought there were so many hints, but it's just as well that people didn't put all the pieces together before now. I was thinking along these lines before Love And Other Drugs came out. I hadn't yet given the color separation house salesman a name yet, but when I learned the salesman's name in LAOD was Jamie, I decided to go in that direction
A few of the stand-out sentences for me:
He'd become curious about me; Jack had a "type" he was attracted to back then but didn't realize it.
This strikes a chord and makes me wonder why we are drawn to the people we choose to love, it’s always been a question I’ve had. And did Ennis also have a “type”, or was Jack, in any guise, always Jack, to him?
…delicate webs of connection that are invisible to most people. They possess a sensitivity that enables them, like a spider that feels the vibrations of a struggling fly, to look at a man and know he is stuck. Elliot was the spider king.
Sad that Ennis sees himself as “being stuck”….I like “delicate webs of connection”. Is this reference to Elliot also meant to show Ennis that way…..or perhaps just the opposite??
Love the way you slipped this in
…whereas I was in torment for four fucking years
……..he would take your name away. He would make sure that your name disappeared from the story of his life even if he couldn't erase you as a character.
This is chilling, that Jack could just hit delete if you hurt him….
As for Lureen - this blindsided me; terribly sad.
thank you.....
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Ennis now sees that he was stuck, but he wasn't conscious of that at the time. Looking back, he can see that certain people seemed to get him before he did himself. He is alluding to Elliot having even greater powers of perception than the others mentioned… which will become more evident later in the story.
It surprised me that readers were surprised about Lureen. I thought there were so many hints, but it's just as well that people didn't put all the pieces together before now. I was thinking along these lines before Love And Other Drugs came out. I hadn't yet given the color separation house salesman a name yet, but when I learned the salesman's name in LAOD was Jamie, I decided to go in that direction
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