i'm on the trail of the bundling board. what is it? why is it? what greater significance might it have? was it victorian? quite likely colonial. i first heard it mentioned on deadwood. i could google it. but i'm taking a break from looking things up. i'm not against learning. i'm against faux learnin'. whatever the fuck that means. jesus, the quality of my thought is diminishing as i think about it. i should maybe stick to linking to smarter things.
so, a bundling board, basically a wooden slat, was used to physically separate two people laying together in the same bed. when seth bullock's wife -- previously married to his brother, who was killed [fighting the comancheros in Texas] -- arrives in deadwood he installed a bundling board along the median of their bed. she says to him at the end of episode 14 that she removed it. this further complicates seth's burgeoning relationship with alma garrett, a recovering opium addict whose claim he reconnoitered. ha.
bundling (no board) as a practice was the convention used by unmarrieds when no other option but sharing one bed was available to them. it simply means to sleep together with all your clothes on. this i think would be a perfect abstinence campaign these days. not that i'm for it, abstinence. or against it. i suppose you can make a case for anything. i just mean that bundling would be fine angle to take. old is new again, right?
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Deadwood sounds amazing, AMAZING I tell ya!
please post "SPOILER ALERT".
I'm only on ep 2.
3 & 4 tonight.
I hate to be an anonymous c*cksucker sniping away at nuances but I ain't got time to fix your mistakes, create a pointless profie and run my own joint all at the same time. Bullock's brother was killed in Mexico, where Seth subsequently disinterred him for re-burial on Mexican soil. As Charlie Utter noted, Mexico is no place to be buried, "Less you're a Mexican."
Nice place you got here. Good luck with the hoopleheads.
I hate to be an anonymous c*cksucker sniping away at nuances but I ain't got time to fix your mistakes, create a pointless profie and run my own joint all at the same time. Bullock's brother was killed in Mexico, where Seth subsequently disinterred him for re-burial on American soil. As Charlie Utter noted, Mexico is no place to be buried, "Less you're a Mexican."
Nice place you got here. Good luck with the hoopleheads.
-- Cocksucking internet fucked me again!
dear sir/madam,
you are totally correct. i was working from memory (always a bad thing for me) and fucked the location of brother bullock's demise... don't know why i made up the civil war locale. anyway, many thanks for the correction. i've made the appropriate changes.
upon further review, in episode 12, bullock approaches General Crook to request he guard otis russell from agents that may try to assassinate him... he prefaces his request with a short list of his credentials (in order to position himself as a man the general would take seriously). quote: I was a marshall in montana, my father in the British Royal Army and my brother Robert was a Cavalryman, killed fight the comancheros in Texas.
i believe this now secures us a mutually acceptable result.
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