Love and Tire Irons

[weaktwos]

Without getting up he threw deadwood on the fire, the sparks flying up with their truths and lies, a few hot points of fire landing on their hands and faces, not for the first time, and they rolled down into the dirt.

Wow, what a difference being true to yourself makes. It's the difference between the stuff of good fiction and a stable, fulfilling and largely uninteresting existence.

Proulx' short story upon which the movie Brokeback Mountain was based is fantastic. Such finely tuned prose. There were some noticeable changes from short story to film, but they were insignificant. They really filled some characters in a few places which made for a little levity in the movie. Lee also expanded exposition of Alma's agony.

Comments

[pacalissanctum.livejournal.com]

You don't happen to have this online do you??? A friend of mine who didn't realise it was a short story when we went to see it has been curious about it. My link to the New Yorker archives of it no longer works.

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Alas, no. I bought the short story collection at the bookstore. She could probably hang out at borders and read it on site. ;-)