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Entry: The Day I Met Ayn Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_day_i_met_ayn#20668 Post contents: As a victim you do not require the approval of other victims to retaliate? You mean that if some robber took your property you would think it proper to follow him to his hideout and take away all you found, your property, and whatever else he may have stolen from other people and keep it all for yourself? I do not mind your stealing from a thief, but as far as the other victims are concerned you are just another thief who is now in possession of the property. Frankly, if I was one of the other victims I would find no difference between you and the original robber - you both hold on to stolen property and dispose of it as it if was yours. You know, if Roark had been more involved in the implementation process he would have found that there might have been good reasons to modify the original design. Like "Sorry, Roark, but these amazing roofs you design have a tendency to leak, so you have to modify them so that they do the job they are supposed to do". "sorry Roark, but this design does not allow for enough room for the wiring, please make room for them" "Sorry, Roark, but these low door thresholds make it easier for people to bump their heads into them". And "Using those materials will put us into cost overruns, so we may have to change with others." Implementation, sir, means sweating out all the little details that if not attended to will give no end of headaches. And it can be an exacting task that may require as much, if not more genius, than designing the thing being implemented. Ayn should not have made his hero an architect. Architecture as an art is different from others. If you do not like a painting or a sculpture, you can put it in the closet and not look at it. If you do not like your house design, you still have to live there and put up with its impractical features until you can unload it on someone else. (I heard that Frank Lloyd Wright's roofs had a tendency to leak - which is an *extremely* undesirable feature in a building). I find it troubling that Ayn could not see that basic difference. One thing that Ayn forgot in making his hero an architect is that ar Sent at: 2008 05 16