Your Email:

Subject:

Message:
Entry: Whittaker Chambers Versus Ayn Rand Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/whittaker_chambers_versus_ayn_rand#7717 Post contents: Optimistically, but foolishly, I thought the Wicked Witch was buried in the previous debate. What does it take to make the author give up his battle against the windmills? A stake through a paperback copy of Atlas Shrugged? Ritual burning? But then I'd have to buy a copy of the menace. No thanks. I think I'll rather invest that money in some extra-soft luxury toilet paper. Will do more use and make me feel a lot better than Atlas Shrugged did. I'll never forgive the pricks who once told me how "great" this novel was. And I'll for ever mourn the hours and days lost on reading it. Reading it was like being lured into going to a party with no chicks and no alcohol, but instead lots of religious intellectual gay guys. The "great" in the novel never ever manifested. Maybe on next page? After that? Next again? But the monster never ended. After reading it you felt cheated and dirty. You spent an hour or two sitting on the floor in the shower, crying and trying to wash away the dirt. But let me end on a positive note. How about using Atlas Shrugged as a means of torturing those terrorists? Force them to read it, question them after each chapter and those who can't tell what's it all about would have to read that chapter again and again and again. That'll make them talk. Someone would of course have to translate the ogre into Arabic first. Poor guy. Sent at: 2008 07 23