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Entry Posted February 5, 2006

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Not ideal: Annie Proulx’s short story “Brokeback Mountain” apparently used to be at this URL, but it’s (effectively) a 404 now. The problem is that if you do a Google search for site:newyorker.com brokeback mountain it returns this page, because a whole lot of pages use “brokeback mountain” as the link text. (The Google cache page says: These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: brokeback mountain.)

(newyorker.com also isn’t returning a “real” 404 error—it’s returning a page that says the page can’t be found, but the usually-invisible response code indicates that the page loaded okay—which I suspect is compounding the problem by preventing Google from removing the page from its cache.) 10:46

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Mid Century Modernity (martinirepublic.blogspot.com):
… Brokeback Mountain that asserting personal identity can be a lonely and painful journey, with no ultimate assurance of social acceptance. [ed: originial Proulx short story available online at New Yorker site here:Brokeback Mountain …

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