Ayn Rand's 100th
Feb. 3rd, 2005 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caitriYeesh, at 100 she'd be even scarier than she already was. Here's the Rand-o-Rama, a list of quotes and articles and such, including this excerpt:
“He spent several days deciding on the artifacts [that would be found with his dead body]....He would be found lying on his back, on his bed, with a copy of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead (which would prove he had been a misunderstood superman rejected by the masses and so, in a sense, murdered by his scorn) and an unfinished letter to Exxon protesting the cancellation of his gas credit card.” —Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly (1977)
I read The Fountainhead back when I was 17, as pre-reading for my senior Advanced Placement English class. Then I thought it was a bit like war--slogging through miserably, every moment a pain, wondering what exactly I was fighting for. I reckon it still is a bit like that. I also never got the whole it-was-rape-but-she-liked-it thing. Um? No? I'm as much for masochistic sex as anyone, but I do make a point of saying "yes" before (and sometimes during...and I'll stop right there shall I?).
Anyhoo, good article, nice quotes. Even have one from Dirty Dancing. Can't tell if I'm surprised Phil K. would be a few scrolls from Patrick Swayze or not. But that's pop culture for you, I guess.
“He spent several days deciding on the artifacts [that would be found with his dead body]....He would be found lying on his back, on his bed, with a copy of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead (which would prove he had been a misunderstood superman rejected by the masses and so, in a sense, murdered by his scorn) and an unfinished letter to Exxon protesting the cancellation of his gas credit card.” —Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly (1977)
I read The Fountainhead back when I was 17, as pre-reading for my senior Advanced Placement English class. Then I thought it was a bit like war--slogging through miserably, every moment a pain, wondering what exactly I was fighting for. I reckon it still is a bit like that. I also never got the whole it-was-rape-but-she-liked-it thing. Um? No? I'm as much for masochistic sex as anyone, but I do make a point of saying "yes" before (and sometimes during...and I'll stop right there shall I?).
Anyhoo, good article, nice quotes. Even have one from Dirty Dancing. Can't tell if I'm surprised Phil K. would be a few scrolls from Patrick Swayze or not. But that's pop culture for you, I guess.
