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LOGAN'S INFLUENCE
Long Prose by John O’Loughlin
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editorial:–
Invited to a
party by his friend Martin Thurber, the avant-garde writer Keith Logan
quickly begins
to turn their host against him by his radical views on God, evolution,
religion, literature, etc., with a result that he quite spoils the
party
atmosphere for Edward Hurst, and unwittingly puts the future of
Thurber's
employment as an ‘in house’ art critic for Hurst's magazine in jeopardy
...
when, under duress of a hangover the following morning, the publisher
decides
to dispense with his art reviews partly in revenge for the intellectual
humiliations inflicted upon him by Logan the previous night. Yet Hurst has a crush
on Thurber's girlfriend, who was also at the party, and, bumping into
him in
the street one afternoon, Greta Ryan elects to place herself at Hurst's disposal
if only he will agree not to take any disciplinary action against her
boyfriend.
Reluctantly, Hurst agrees to
her proposal and it looks as though, thanks to her influence, Thurber's
future
as an art critic is assured. In the
meantime, however, the latter has invited Keith Logan to accompany him
to a West End gallery in
order to view an avant-garde artist whom he had been commissioned to
review for
Hurst, and before
long he falls under the writer's radical influence and ends-up penning
quite
the most eulogistic review of such an artist ever!
Hurst, however, is
less than impressed, and, under pressure from his sub-editor, he finds
himself
in the unenviable position of having to reject Thurber's review and
effectively
break his promise to Greta. Naturally
when the latter hears about this from her boyfriend, who now faces
dismissal,
she is incensed, and secretly vows to take her revenge on Hurst.
Unable to confide in Thurber, who knows
nothing of her sexual accommodation with his boss, she visits Keith
Logan and
together they decide to contact Hurst's
brother-in-law to see if he can be persuaded to publish the review
instead,
since he also runs an arts magazine.
Happily for Thurber, the brother-in-law agrees to publish it,
though
only on condition that Greta befriends him on terms similar to those
earlier
secured by Hurst - or so one is led to infer from the dénouement, in
which
Logan witnesses Greta and Patmore getting
into a taxi
together and heading along the Charing Cross Road! – A Centretruths
Editorial
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