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Excerpts from "The Fountainhead" in the Age of Obama
The Fountainhead | March 1943 | Ayn Rand

Posted on 11/14/2008 6:15:36 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds

Page 103, Chapter "Peter Keating". Ellsworth Toohey is speaking to a crowd of striking workers while Peter Keating and Toohey's niece, Catherine, are listening to the loudspeaker outside the hall:

It was not a voice, it was a miracle. It unrolled as a velvet banner. It spoke English words, but the resonant clarity of each syllable made it sound like a new language spoken for the first time. It was the voice of a giant.

Keating stood, his mouth open. He did not hear what the voice was saying. He heard the beauty of the sounds without meaning. He felt no need to know the meaning: he could accept anything, he would b e led blindly anywhere.

"... and so, my friend", the voice was saying, "the lesson to be learned from our tragic struggle is the lesson of unity. We shall unite or we shall be defeated. Our will -- the will of the disinherited, the forgotten, the oppressed -- shall weld us into a solid bulwark, with a common faith and a common goal. This is the time for every man to renounce the thoughts of his petty little problems, of gain, of comfort, of self-gratification. This is the time to merge his self in a great current, in the rising tide which is approaching to sweep us all, willing or unwilling, into the future. History, my friends, does not ask questions or acquiescence. It is irrevocable, as the voice of the masses that determine it. Let us listen to the call. Let us organize, my brothers, Let us organize. Let us organize. Let us organize."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; aynrand; bho2008; ellsworth; fountainhead; obama; organize; toohey
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To: ArchAngel1983
Why can’t we (Conservatives) simply emblazon (Who is John Galt?) on everything we own?

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!

61 posted on 11/14/2008 9:26:29 PM PST by SlowBoat407 (Do not read this tagline.)
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To: mmichaels1970

“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


62 posted on 11/14/2008 9:29:57 PM PST by Fishrrman
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To: SlowBoat407
” I thought that was so cool!"

It was…

63 posted on 11/14/2008 9:44:29 PM PST by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard)
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To: Truthsearcher

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.


64 posted on 11/15/2008 6:25:13 AM PST by Elvina ( "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny."--Ronald Reagan 10/27/64)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

They made a movie of The Fountainhead (1949) starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal (ooh la la) that was amazingly faithful to the book.


65 posted on 11/15/2008 11:37:37 AM PST by driftless2
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To: ArchAngel1983
"Radix, I read your profile. OMG, how do you continue to thrive and succeed in such a hostile environment? I wouldn't’t last two minutes there."

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.

66 posted on 11/15/2008 12:26:53 PM PST by Radix (Senator Robert Byrd considers retirement: " Someone has got to iron those sheets.")
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