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3 days ago20 years later, is it time to quit 'Brokeback Mountain'?
I read further and met Ennis and Jack, two sheep herders who eke out a kind of strangled, self-loathing love story on the wind-whipped slopes of a mountain in Wyoming in the 1960s. I then realized why The New Yorker had published it not so much the story, or the characters, or the setting, but the prose. My god, the prose. So spare, so austere, so unsentimental yet you could feel everything that was roiling just below its surface.
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