DING DING DING! We have a winner!
In Rand's day, deconstructivism was just a gleam in the eye of a nihilistic academic somewhere. Rand had had her experience with nihilism in Bolshevik Russia, but here she was creating the academic basis for denying reality itself, which will come soon in the book.
Damn, you're good!
I just finished the book.
One gets an entirely different reading at fifty-three than one did at fifteen, to say the least.
And how she so accurately predicted the political direction of the country before what I consider the pivotal era of the early Sixties (Any of Moynihan’s objective analyses of that era “Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding”, “Miles to Go” contributed to my opinion of same) just astonishes me.
I pledge to restrain myself.
That would be We, The Living.