Posted on 11/14/2008 6:15:36 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds
In 1983 I scrawled it onto an abandoned coaling tower in the Connecticut River Valley using a lump of coal. I thought that was so cool!
“I recommend “We the Living” for a great vision of where we’ll be when there is nobody left to tax. It’s a shorter read that you can do in a weekend.”
“We The Living” was Ms. Rand’s first book, not an autobiography, but she stated that the person of Kira embodied her own ideas and visions. It forms the foundation for her subsequent novels - we see “where she came from” and how it shaped her into what she became and why she believed as she did.
After reading it, one becomes more afraid of what the Obammunists have in store for us....
- John
It was…
Well that is my problem too, now that I am more solidly a Christian. While I agree with Rand’s analysis of the folly of socialist economics, her atheism gets in the way of fully embracing her work. If only she had a Christian counterpart, who possessed her ability for brilliant analysis and also believed in God. It is comforting that the current Pope recognizes the folly of socialism.
They made a movie of The Fountainhead (1949) starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal (ooh la la) that was amazingly faithful to the book.
Almost three years ago when my son returned from Iraq. I was in Georgia at a hotel awaiting his return celebration. There were there some other guests staying for some sort of a Convention.
I honestly felt at home there yakking it up with some of those guys. Most of those folks were as confounded about my neighbors as I usually am.
Some day I hope to get out of here, but right now I have family constraints.
I do appreciate your sentiments. Thanks for sharing.
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