Sinister: Chaste, but never caught

[Robert Fisk]

I love Hal Hartley

Robert


On Tue, 01 Dec 1998 22:42:29 GMT Robert McTaggart 
<mctag at bigfoot.com> wrote:

> 
> Hello Young Lovers,
> 
> It's competition time, and there is a big BIG prize.  I am offering a
> fantastic tape of my favourite soul stompers to anyone who can tell me
> what Trousers was wittering on about in his last mail.  I didn't
> understand a bloody word of it.
> 
> Anyhoo, Hal Hartley.  Belle and Sebastian fans are obliged to like
> him, aren't they?  Of course, for our transatlantic chums, this is old
> news, but the Warrander John and I went to see "Henry Fool" last
> night.  I was a bit wary of going to the pictures with him after he
> rather forwardly invited me into "Santa's Chocolate Grotto" to
> celebrate the first day of Advent, but once I'd persuaded him that
> necking in the back row was a no-no on our first date, we went along.
> Now I'm a big Hal fan, but the first few minutes made me nervous.  "Oh
> no, this is going to be crap", I thought.  Then someone threw up all
> over someone else's naked buttocks (no, it wasn't John), and
> everything got suddenly better.  It's actually one of those films that
> you think about the next day and think "oooh, that bit was good",
> rather than one you enjoy at the time and have forgotten about as soon
> as you hit the bar afterwards.  In the bar afterwards, John and I
> talked about you all for a while, that's why your ears were burning.
> Brad and Genevieve, your ears should be truly ablaze by now.  But you
> know what, it was all said with love.  Well, lust anyway.
> 
> Sex list??  I'm scared and I want my Mum.  I can't even seek chaste
> sanctuary at the Shalala Monastery since Brother Duke has renounced
> his vow of chastity and admitted his desire to "have it off" with
> Isobel.  What was left of my innocence was dashed against the rocks by
> that particular revelation, believe me.
> 
> Goodnight,
> Love,
> Tag xxx
> 
> PS Is it Alan Horne?
> 
> PPS Joyeux anniversaire a la fille la plus renardeuse de ma vie.
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