[Talisker]

The fact she so terribly fails to live up to her own standards and found the lifestyles she propounded to be such miserable suffering shows she does not understand the human nature she proposes to instruct us about.

Dostoevsky beat his wife, and Hemingway committed suicide. Thanks for warning me away from their writings.

Michelangelo was not a homosexual. ...he wrote in a very flush tone about male friends...

LOL - indeed, very flush tones... darling.

[nickcarraway]

Dostoevsky beat his wife

Can you give a citation for that, or are you just spreading B.S. to discredit a conservative writer?

[dangus]

Dostoevsky and Hemingway are known for their prose and conveying human experience, not their political theory and speculative fiction. I think Rand’s story-telling is better than Slate gives her credit for, but we’re hardly discussing the value of her prose.

In other words, Dostoevsky and Hemingway describe the human condition; Rand makes diagnoses. If I criticize Rand for making false diagnoses, it’s silly to say that Dostoevsky and Hemingway aren’t medical experts, either.