Ayn Rand's Revenge

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: Ayn Rand's Revenge


> That one female character in Lot49, whose name escapes and which I do not 
> want to look up, has been said by some to be a satire of Ayn Rand...


That would be Mafia.

Mary Gaitskill's novel Two Women: One Fat One Thin has a characterizaion of 
her. One of the damaged women (the fat one) was obsessed by gthe Rand 
character..  Don't think she was made to feel superior to the common run or 
anything like that. More it was a case of obsession with obsesssion. I can 
relate to that, which is no doubt why I loved the book while being neither 
fat nor particularly damaged, and alas not obsessed by anything. Wish I 
were.

P
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> --- On Mon, 11/2/09, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
>> Subject: Re: Ayn Rand's Revenge
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 9:49 AM
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>>   ----- Original Message
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>>   From:
>>   Robert Mahnke
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>>   To: pynchon -l
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>>   Sent: Sunday,
>> November 01, 2009 9:15
>>   PM
>>   Subject: Re: Ayn
>> Rand's Revenge
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>>   Seems like the point of that insult in both cases is
>> to deride the target
>>   for being a woman in a role usually held by a man.
>> That's not the first
>>   (or second, or third) thing I think of when I think of
>> either Ayn Rand or
>>   Margaret Thatcher, neither of whom I am much fond.
>> So were I to want to
>>   insult them, I think I'd look for something less
>> gender-specific. Just
>>   my two cents.
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>>   Though their politics
>> may stink and Ayn's writing
>>   style is atrocious I find both women quite interesting.
>> I'll probably read the
>>   new bio of Rand on the kindle.
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>>   Only wish Pynchon
>> hadn't completely abandoned
>>   populating his novels with a few obsessed
>> characters.
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>>   I'd give a lot to be
>> able to enjoy another
>>   Pointsman or equally weird Weissmann.
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>>   P
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>>   On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:07 PM,
>> Page <page at quesnelbc.com>
>> wrote:
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>>   An
>>     addition to ayn: some years ago, I saw Eddie Izzard
>> doing a stand-up show.
>>     At one point he said that Margaret Thatcher was a cunt.
>> Well-deserved in my
>>     book.
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>> To: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, October 31,
>>     2009 8:24 AM
>> Subject: Re: Ayn Rand's Revenge
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>>     can't
>>       u just see the likes of Alan Greenspan on his knees
>> giving her
>>       head?
>> when i see that dickhead on the tv moaning about free
>> markets
>>       thats
>> the indelible image I'm stuck with
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>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at
>>       12:08 AM, Dave Monroe
>> <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>       On
>>         Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Dave Monroe
>> <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>         On
>>           Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:59 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
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>>           if
>>             anyone deserved to be called a cunt, it was ayn
>>
>>         rand
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>> ... but just don't call her a
>>         Kantian
>>     ...
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