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Entry: The Day I Met Ayn Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_day_i_met_ayn#20146 Post contents: I don't know which is worse, Justin's self-serving nonsense or the many idiotic comments by the cons & paleolibs here. Atlas Shrugged is "dramatic clumsiness" and We The Living is her best work ! In fact, the movie of We The Living, made in fascist Italy is better than the book. One couldn't say that of The Fountainhead though the movie was not as bad as the foppish aesthetes who criticized it. By the way Mussolini did not censor We The Living contrary to common misinformation originating with the unreliable Brandens. Let's hope Atlas Shrugged is made into an exciting tv series a la Dallas instead of the proposed theatrical movie which couldn't begin to do it justice. Every time Raimondo discusses Rand it is always a prelude to the real story of the greater glory of Raimondo. There is this breathless teenage hero- worship when I was young old line a la the late Roy A. Childs,Junior. The actual exposition of the philosophy is scarce and mostly as an aside to crowd pleasing anecdotes that charm the misinformed without illuminating the essence of her work. Raimondo previously wrote the incredible contention that Garett's The Driver was the motivation for Atlas Shrugged ! Of course when I read it in late 93 after reading Raimondo's chapter on Rand in his first book, I discovered there was no similarity at all. Everyone from Murray Rothbard to Jerome Tuccille to many, many lesser lights has used peripheral symbolisms as a substitute for reasoned argument and to get cheap laughs from the Kirkean numbskull anti-ideologues and the libertarian dropouts. Read Raimondo for laughs, he's an ongoing comedian but not for any serious philosophical analysis. His bio of Rothbard is as cultish as anything he claims alleged Randian acolytes do. Ayn would not be proud of your writings on her, Justin. I'm afraid her demented anti-Arab racism (her single biggest flaw) would rule out appreciation of your website by her if she were still with us. Sent at: 2008 05 16