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Introducing
SUBLIMATED
RELATIONS
OR
THE VOICE MUSEUM
Long Prose by John O’Loughlin
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editorial:–
A young
religious writer named Timothy Byrne accepts an invitation from a
certain Lord Handon, an aristocratic
admirer of his work, to spend New
Year's Eve in the company of a select gathering of artists and
performers at Rothermore House, Handon's
country retreat, and winds up first dancing and then falling in love
with one
of his fellow guests, who happens to be an opera singer.
Much debate and festivity take place before
Timothy discovers, in conjunction with the other guests, the real
motive for
their presence there, which is to learn of and offer their services to
‘The
Voice Museum', an extraordinary project situated in London's Piccadilly
which
houses voice recordings of famous people in soundproofed booths where,
for a
modest price, the public can sample words of wisdom and/or folly at the
touch
of a button. Thus it is that Timothy
agrees to allow his voice to be recorded for future use by the museum's
principal director, Girish O'Donnell - as,
of course,
do each of the other guests, all of whom are either established or
budding
talents in the arts. Meanwhile, Lord Handon has been attempting to conduct a low-key
relationship with Sarah Field, the opera singer, though with little
success, in
view of her preference for Timothy and knowledge of the viscount's
secret – a
secret which has more than a little to do with the strange nature of
his
relations, necessarily sublimated, with women.
Equally unsuccessful are Handon's
attempts to
subvert Timothy Byrne's spiritual standing as a self-styled guru and
messianic
liberator through his daughter, Geraldine; though, unbeknownst to
anyone else,
the writer has already undermined it through Sarah and has no need of
further
seductions! Another of John O’Loughlin’s philosophic-cum-romantic novels, Sublimated
Relations is
nevertheless much socially bolder and intellectually freer than the
others. –
A
Centretruths
Editorial
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