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Flannery O’Connor: Friends Don’t Let Friends Read Ayn Rand (1960)
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| June 18, 2014
Posted on 03/14/2015 8:04:26 PM PDT by don-o
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posted on
03/14/2015 8:04:26 PM PDT
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don-o
To: Mrs. Don-o
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posted on
03/14/2015 8:04:49 PM PDT
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don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
To: don-o
Too bad the world has grown so ugly, or this would have been a hoot.
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posted on
03/14/2015 8:07:57 PM PDT
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9thLife
("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
To: Publius; Billthedrill
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posted on
03/14/2015 8:10:07 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: don-o; Gamecock; F15Eagle
I liked Tolstoy’s “War - What is it Good For?”
To: don-o
The economist Murray Rothbard was a friend of Ayn Rand’s until she chastised him for having a Christian wife.
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posted on
03/14/2015 8:13:40 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever)
To: don-o
Rand— Great ideas. Lousy writing....
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posted on
03/14/2015 8:13:46 PM PDT
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freebilly
To: freebilly
Totally agree. Rand treated deep concepts with unidimensional characters.
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posted on
03/14/2015 8:19:30 PM PDT
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dinodino
To: dinodino
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posted on
03/14/2015 8:20:22 PM PDT
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freebilly
To: don-o
Ayn Rand as serious literature is quite weak, but “Anthem” alone can put as much interest in a young reader as “Ender’s Game” or “Starship Troopers.” “Atlas Shrugged” was a decent read, but not canonical. I did like “The Fountainhead” the most though.
She doesn’t do well with having a voice, but her characters are interesting and have life, and her message is very important. Flannery should consider, however, that Ayn was not born into English. She also was more of a philosopher than a novelist - you ever read Faulkner’s poetry? Nah, I didn’t think so.
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03/14/2015 8:25:17 PM PDT
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struggle
To: don-o
In 1960, The Fountainhead was THE book to read on campus. Its popularity would have caused a great deal of concern to those who had so little use for Rand’s philosophy, regardless of her writing style.
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posted on
03/14/2015 8:25:22 PM PDT
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EDINVA
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
03/14/2015 8:26:18 PM PDT
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FredZarguna
(I've never noticed that Mother Angelica had any sense of humor _at all_.)
To: don-o
“I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail.”
Ho ho ho! Pretty good insult.
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03/14/2015 8:31:09 PM PDT
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jocon307
(Tell it like it is.)
To: Larry Lucido
“War - What is it Good For?”
You left out the HUH!
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03/14/2015 8:32:00 PM PDT
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jocon307
(Tell it like it is.)
To: don-o
Oh, for a more innocent America when Atlas Shrugged could still be regarded as fiction.
To: don-o
I have no doubt that Rand would have replied to O'Connor in a vein similar to J.R.R. Tolkien's classic response to his critics:
"Many who have read the book, or at any rate reviewed it, have found it to be absurd, boring, or contemptible, and I have no reason to complain, since I have a similar opinion of their work, or the kind of writing they evidently prefer."
There is ultimately nothing so juvenile as arguing over taste. Personally, I much prefer Rand's essays to her fiction and find O'Connor genuinely execrable in all her forms.
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03/14/2015 8:34:27 PM PDT
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FredZarguna
(I've never noticed that Mother Angelica had any sense of humor _at all_.)
To: FredZarguna; jocon307; Gamecock; F15Eagle
Yuri Testikov! Now there was a writer!
To: Larry Lucido
Yuri Testikov! Now there was a writer! Jake Jarmel! I see you've finally learned how to use exclamation points appropriately!
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03/14/2015 8:49:36 PM PDT
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FredZarguna
(I've never noticed that Mother Angelica had any sense of humor _at all_.)
To: ADemocratNoMore; Aggie Mama; alarm rider; alexander_busek; AlligatorEyes; AmericanGirlRising; ...
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posted on
03/14/2015 8:55:18 PM PDT
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Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: FredZarguna
Where did you get those frames??!!
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