I'm trying to track down the short story that "Brokeback Mountain" was based on. Any clue where it was published, what collection it might be in, or even if it was ever published online?
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Anne W. - Dec 23, 2005 4:16:15 pm PST #9670 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Sue - Dec 23, 2005 4:25:20 pm PST #9671 of 10002
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Anne, it was originally published in the New Yorker, and I thought I saw a link to the story on their website somewhere in my interbunny travels. Let me check the usual suspects.
Sue - Dec 23, 2005 4:27:52 pm PST #9672 of 10002
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Here's a cached version from Google: [link]
Anne W. - Dec 23, 2005 4:28:02 pm PST #9673 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Thanks, Sue! If I can track this down, it will absolutely make my mom's Christmas. She's a huge Annie Proulx fan, and hasn't been able to find the story anywhere.
ETA: THANK YOU!!!!
Mom's getting gay cowboys for Christmas! Whee!
§ ita § - Dec 23, 2005 4:33:24 pm PST #9674 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sue - Dec 23, 2005 4:56:00 pm PST #9675 of 10002
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Blows smoke off fingers.
§ ita § - Dec 23, 2005 4:58:47 pm PST #9676 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hey, I got none of that messy cache stuff. So I take a couple extra seconds to make it pretty.
::sniff::
meara - Dec 23, 2005 4:59:46 pm PST #9677 of 10002
Plus, in the bookstores lately there've been little tiny movie-cover versions of the story, with just that story (which is short, so seems silly to make a whole book out of it, but I'm sure someone's making mad money off it)
Anne W. - Dec 23, 2005 5:09:45 pm PST #9678 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I appreciate both your efforts greatly. This will be a real coup for yrs truly.
Sue - Dec 23, 2005 5:11:59 pm PST #9679 of 10002
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Hey, I got none of that messy cache stuff. So I take a couple extra seconds to make it pretty.
Yes, you definitely win on presentation.
Since I'm in the Literary thread, I recently read Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro. I liked it lots, and I find that it's been kind of haunting my thoughts (and my dreams). Based on my sample of 1.5 books by Ishiguro (the other being Remains of the Day he really seems to be into doomed love.