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PollWhat should the government do about ailing financial institutions? Nothing, except to back off and get out—as any Objectivist knows, intervention is treating the disease with the disease 85% Intervene judiciously—enough to avert a catastrophe that is otherwise imminent 4% Intervene massively—as it's doing 2% Nationalize the whole economy and be done with it. Bring on the USSA! 2% Something else (specify) 7% Total votes: 54
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Roark and Mallory Submitted by seddon on Thu, 2008-01-24 21:21.
For no special reason I happen to grab THE FOUNTAINHEAD and flipped aimlessly through the pages until I lighted on the scene where Roark goes to Mallroy's apartment to hire him to do the statue for the Stoddard temple. After just a few sentences I was transported into Rand's world and I thought to myself, "Christ, I love the way this woman writes. Nobody does it for me the way she does." Fred
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Fred
Point taken. This makes me appreciate Vista so much more when I run into things like this on my computer with XP.
---Landon
Never mistake contempt for compassion, or power lust for ambition.
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Landon
No way. There must be a glich is cyberspace.
Fred
But...
Rand's heroines all possess an intellect and strength of character greater than the men around them -- and, simultaneously, the right kind of vulnerability, a very sexy hero-worship.
Me like.
Agreed...
But I can't stand Dominique and thus I like Atlas more than Fountainhead.
I know she is both an illustration of the malevolent universe fallacy and a klaxon warning against the perils of permanent pessimism.
Unfortunately, these are two things I deeply loathe and to have them incorporated into the heroine of the book irritates me greatly. Her character has the intelligence to see her folly but blithely refuses to. AAARGH!
I've read the Fountainhead, but could only finish it by avoiding any passage focusing on Dominique.
Agreed, BUT
Fred, could you please check your spelling before posting. You misspelled Roark, twice.
---Landon
Never mistake contempt for compassion, or power lust for ambition.
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Magical
Me, too.