Thursday, December 08, 2005

What A Sentence

Only Annie Proulx has a gift like this:

"At first glance Jack seemed fair enough, with his curly hair and quick laugh, but for a small man he carried some weight in the haunch and his smile disclosed buckteeth, not pronounced enough to let him eat popcorn out of the neck of a jug, but noticeable."

From the story that inspired Brokeback Mountain.

Somehow the teeth got lost in translation, seems Jake didn't feel a prosthetic set were really necessary.

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