2nd in a series of “Who is … ?” posts in exploration of: 1) the “Who is John Galt?” question posed in Ayn’s 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged; and2) the Paul Ryan/Rand mysteries. This question “Who is John Galt?” is posed 33 times in Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged. Here are some suggested answers. John Galt […]
In Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, comprising 890 pages,[1] there are 4,105 uses of “as”, including 1,213 uses of “as if”; and 1,406 of “like.” Take any page at random and one will likely find “as if” upon “as if”; “like” upon “like”; and other such elaborations. The first page of the first chapter gives notice
1st in a series of “Who is … ?” posts in exploration of: 1) the “Who is John Galt?” question posed in Ayn’s 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged; and 2) the Paul Ryan/Rand mysteries. So to the question: “Who is [Ayn Rand]?” □ a real, historical figure (1905-1982) who named her subjectivist theories, Objectivism? □ a
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During this year 2012 (which marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Ayn Rand), I have been re-reading Atlas Shrugged.[1] Besides doing a little Ayn-alysing,[2] I have been struck by the inadvertent symbolism of her $-sign on a cigarette butt. That symbol has proven profoundly apt for those devoted above all things to self-direction,
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(Déjà vu characters from 424 BC ~ courtesy of ARISTOPHANES[1] with some minor name changes for the sake of clarity.) [A Duel of Economic Ideologies (including personalities): continued from the previous two posts.] SAUSAGE-SELLER. The story is worth hearing. Listen! From here I rushed straight to the Senate, right in the track of this man;
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(Déjà vu characters from 424 BC ~ courtesy of ARISTOPHANES[1] with some names slightly amended for clarity.) In the last post, Dimisthenes asks, “Who will get us out of this mess?” And who should promptly show up but a sausage-seller! He is swiftly recruited to the cause. What follows is an Aristophian distillation of mankind’s
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(Déjà vu characters from 424 BC ~ courtesy of ARISTOPHANES[1] with some names slightly amended for clarity.) [DIMISTHENES:] I will begin then. We have a very brutal master, a perfect glutton for bean[counting], and most bad-tempered; ’tis Demos of [DC], an intolerable old man and half deaf. The beginning of last month he bought a
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