[maine-iac7]

The only thing that breaks my heart is that Ms. Rand was an atheist

Her personal life was a mess. I suspicion she saw herself as a tall, gorgeous blond like her heroines - but trapped in a short, dumpy, dark homely body.

That said, if we judged/read books by the private lives of the authors rather than the content of the books, we'd miss a lot of valuable information/insight.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

I had Dagny Taggart with a brown shoulder-length page-boy — ala a young Demi Moore (if I were to type-cast for looks) or Kathryn Hepburn. I had Frisco as Antonio Bandaras. I had John Galt as a type of Brad Pitt with slightly more gravitas, and last, but not least Reardon as a younger Spencer Tracy with Meryl Streep as his faithful secretary. Because I was a Theatrical Arts major for a while (very short while), I used to dream of making it into a movie. It was all I could think of through my 20s. Ah, well... I DID dream big right up to the point where I got married and from there it was rather labor intensive. ;-)