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To: parsifal
Whatever you do, stay away from Ayn Rand. It will rot your brain. ...If you can find it, The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer(?) is to die for.

LOL - Ayn Rand writes about not becoming what Hoffer calls a True Believer!

14 posted on 09/26/2009 7:56:13 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Talisker

I didn’t want to mention Hoffer’s occupation, but it was a heck of a good book. Trying to work my way thru Fragebogen. I think nobody in the universe has heard of it. Male Fantasies I and II by Thelweiter(?) are fascinating, and no they aren’t naughty sex books.

But Ayn Rand can stunt someone’s mental growth if they read her at too young an age. The simplistic theology has an appeal which is hard to see thru unless one has the perspective of age. I read it at too young an age but an older woman insisted I read it when I was 15.

parsy, who was corrupted early in life


36 posted on 09/26/2009 8:14:59 PM PDT by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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