revisiting the fountainhead
While I still hate the book and think Ayn Rand was insane, my fury has cooled a bit, and I am able to say this:
Though nuts, she may have been a genius. I kind of think she was trying to piss people off, and used verbosity to her advantage. I can’t say I’ve thought more about a book in recent years. Though nothing she said was extraordinarily provocative, she did have a way of hammering it into me in a way that makes me think, “hey, maybe it’s time i actually take this crap seriously.” that is to say, there’s a difference between believing in a principle and actually applying it to life.
last thing i will say, how the hell did this shitty line get into a 752 page book that said almost nothing interesting, let alone totally retarded as this line:
“His voice had the quality of a downpayment on terror.”
Is that not the stupidest line ever????
