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Troubadour, by Robert Augustine Ward Lowndes
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Title: The Troubadour
Author: Robert Augustine Ward Lowndes
Release Date: October 20, 2007 [EBook #23091]
Language: English
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The Troubadour
By Peter Michael Sherman
There was something odd about the guest attraction, Mr. Fayliss, and something odder still about his songs.
So far as parties go, Jocelyn's were no duller than any others. I went to this one mainly to listen to Paul Kutrov and Frank Alva bait each other, which is usually more entertaining than most double features. Kutrov adheres to the "onward and upward" school of linear progress, while Alva is more or less of a Spenglerian. More when he goes along by himself; less when you try to pin him down to it. And since the subject of tonight's revelations would be the pre-Mohammed Arabian Culture, I'd find Alva inclined toward my side of the debate, which is strictly morphological and without any pious theories of "progress".
I'd completely forgotten that Jocelyn had mentioned something about having a special attraction: a "Mr. Fayliss", who, she insisted, was a troubadour. I didn