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Entry: The Day I Met Ayn Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_day_i_met_ayn#20503 Post contents: Michael: because the original idea was his did not make it his building. Did he bake the bricks? Did he lay cement? Did he hire or direct the workmen so that they did the job properly? Did he lay any wire? Had not all that work be done *by someone else* Roark's ideas would have continued to inhabit his brain and nowhere else. The ground would have continued to sprout weeds and wildlife would have continued to inhabit it. We do not live in a High Fantasy world where it is enough that the magician imagine his castle and call upon a magic gem to erect it. Between the thought and the deed remains the implementation, and the implementation process was never Roark's property. He had the right to ask that his name be removed from the building, or to change the name of the architect to "Cordwainer Bird", but he could not lay claim to what was not his to destroy. Sent at: 2008 05 16