They recognized each other (Lesgate: "I can""t help thinking I""ve seen you before somewhere") - they actually were former Cambridge classmates almost 20 years in the past, when Lesgate was known as Charles Alexander "C.While Kit works at the feedlot in town, and hrows hay to the morose-looking cattle (contrasted in a montage), he unpopular, shy, and impressionable Holly (in voice-over) describes how she fell in love with the image (rather than the reality) of the handsome, James Dean-like, white-trash drifter "from the wrong side of the tracks":Kit went to work in the feedlot while I carried on with my studies.The story was built upon Hilton""s own experiences with a senior Master of Classics at a private elitist school in Cambridge.Tillane.I""m not talkin"" about memorials or monuments.It""s just that ever since I was a kid livin"" in the shack near the slag heaps, my mother""s told me about Innisfree and White O""Mornin"".