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To: Billthedrill
Not a one of them had a single character flaw . . .

Except promiscuity and arrogance.

"If they won't build it my way, then, well, I'll just blow it up. There's a good idea! After all, they just own the building. I am the artiste."

Her protagonists were sociopaths. But as you say, her portraits of the moochers was so right on, it hurt. But then, they were sociopaths too.

19 posted on 10/02/2006 7:35:27 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker
Except promiscuity and arrogance.

Now that is a very interesting point. I don't think Rand regarded either trait as a flaw, actually - the promiscuity in particular was a rejection of conventional sexual morality roughly a decade before it became fashionable that she very much shared and acted upon. It wasn't one of her more endearing personal characteristics.

As far as arrogance goes I'm also inclined to agree. But what need does a person who is perfect have of humility?

21 posted on 10/02/2006 7:46:17 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ModelBreaker
"If they won't build it my way, then, well, I'll just blow it up.

You have obviously not read the book or even bothered to see the movie.

L

63 posted on 10/03/2006 11:45:38 AM PDT by Lurker (islam is not a religion. It's the new face of Fascism in our time. We ignore it at our peril.)
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