Ralston McTodd
The "Singer of Saskatoon", Canadian poet McTodd is married to Cynthia, a friend of Phyllis Jackson and Eve Halliday, and is invited to Blandings by Lady Constance, ever a supporter of the literary arts, in Leave it to Psmith. A sullen, gloomy man with long, disorderly hair, he is a cigar-lover who likes to be the centre of attention, and to impress people with his epigrams. He rows with his wife frequently, and is insulted by Lord Emsworth's eccentric ways, spurning his invitation to the castle, thereby allowing Psmith to impersonate him for a time. One of his verses, from the collection Songs of Squalor, begins with the line "Across the pale parabola of joy..."
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