Letters to Hannah a sister
Here ye go, some brotherly story -
The Gimp, as you called him.
The perfect word, so Whelan. There it is all that talent; that I haven’t ever
had. I would word patterns of pages to describe him, that is the creature is
caught in by four letters. Tony Healy is a gimp. Rory took a load of his
photographs. Lovely photos, graphics of the town. Made a unique collage,
setting it with the music of Cinema Paradiso. It was singing imagery. Exactly
the sort of “faggot shite”-”pretentious cunty” shite I would find profound. And
others wholly fond of this town would love, like Tony Healy and his
assort-stucks in the Balbriggan love-box. Image after after, beautiful
sights, set to magic music. A perfect set running through. Then suddenly out of
nowhere out of the beauty came Monica Harford, pictured, and the Scream of
Nature, and it ended, very abruptly. The sound could break the volumes. He sent
me the lovely video and I fell for it- put the volume full-up. This is
wonderful, a new Rory, a loving Rory. But so did others too, the trigger at the
end, he’d edited it so the sound of the scream was extremely loud at the sight
of councillor Moncia Harford. Balbriggan had a town council back then and
popular as his channel was, the elected saw it, and a vanity pursuit pursued.
Monica Harford and others on the council were furious with Tony Healy. Since it
was his pictures, they thought he had made the movie, or at least approved it
or something. He had a job with them at the time, taking pictures; and was
frogged-marched down there, interrogated, threatened, cajoled, beaten about the
washing machine for doing nothing and all for the vanity of this gargoyle. He
starts whimpering of course, in front of them the gimp he is. And is now onto
Rory, pleading away and threatening legal action if the video isn’t taken down
and the distresses he has been put through. The last part of it is thus; he had
such an eye for faces, walking home from the pub one day, past the Bracken
Hotel he eyed Tony Healy, who had no idea who he had just walked past, and what
a laugh we had in that moment at his gimpy face, the gawk of the world.
A respondent back and forth
Hannah Speaks
Kevin you're mixing up the priest with our uncle Eddie. Ed gave the
speech?/reading? at the church. He mentioned Metallica, Megadeth, Sepultura
(pronounced wrong).
That Rory taught himself guitar. He was left-handed and taught himself on
right-handed guitar. That's some of the bits I remember.
Eddie was always very good to us. He would bring us to the cinema and stuff
when we were kids.
He was paying for Rory to get braces when he was a teenager. The morning Rory
was supposed to get them done he fucked off somewhere because he didn't want
them. Typical fucking Rory.
I think Ed might have brought Rory to his first gig -Ash. Not 100% on that
though, would have to double-check.
Kev I do have loads of things I want to ask you or discuss about your book, or
just in general.
It's hard to have a proper conversation through text so I will talk to you in
person sometime.
I literally have typed out reminder/discussion points in my phone for in case
my mind draws a blank.
Would you be ok with talking? Don't want to be wrecking your head if you're not
up for it
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