brokeback-mountain

Is there a support group for people who didn__ like __rokeback Mountain_? We must, if the rave reviews and the newspaper reports are to be believed, be a very tiny _ not to mention vulnerable _ minority. Am I dead inside because I didn__ experience the torrent of emotions I__e been reading about? Am I as emotionally crippled as Ennis because I didn__ blub and hug after sitting through this __isceral_ movie, but instead wanted to go and __elp with the roundup_?

That night, before bed, he goes first to Willem's side of the closet, which he has still not emptied. Here are Willem's shirts on their hangers, and his sweaters on their shelves, and his shoes lined up beneath. He takes down the shirt he needs, a burgundy plaid woven through with threads of yellow, which Willem used to wear around the house in the springtime, and shrugs it on over his head. But instead of putting his arms through its sleeves, he ties the sleeves in front of him, which makes the shirt look like a straitjacket, but which he can pretend__f he concentrates__re Willem's arms in an embrace around him. He climbs into bed. This ritual embarrasses and shames him, but he only does it when he really needs it, and tonight he really needs it.

Then I wondered if that was what this was, like a Brokeback Mountain thing. We__ sleep in the same bed for a year, and finally we__ do it, but we__ never talk about it, ever, and then Ben would get married and I__ be killed in Texas.Probably not, but you can never be too careful with these things.