Ayn Rand's Revenge

[rich]

if anyone deserved to be called a cunt, it was ayn rand



On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rand’s particular intellectual contribution, the thing that makes her
> so popular and so American, is the way she managed to mass market
> elitism — to convince so many people, especially young people, that
> they could be geniuses without being in any concrete way
> distinguished. Or, rather, that they could distinguish themselves by
> the ardor of their commitment to Rand’s teaching. The very form of her
> novels makes the same point: they are as cartoonish and sexed-up as
> any best seller, yet they are constantly suggesting that the reader
> who appreciates them is one of the elect.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Kirsch-t.html
>
> Ayn Rand
> and the World She Made
> by Anne C. Heller
>
> http://knopfdoubleday.com/aynrand/
>
> Cf. ...
>
> Mafia
> 123; authoress of three 1000+ page novels centered on Heroic Love
> Theory; wife of Winsome; 217; 348; "a fucking fascist," 349; 357;
> 360-61
>
> http://www.thomaspynchon.com/v/alpha/m.html
>
> Mafia
> According to Molly Hite in Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas
> Pynchon , "Mafia is a parody of Ayn Rand, whose influence was at its
> peak in the early sixties when V. first appeared." (p.162, fn.13)
>
> http://www.thomaspynchon.com/v/extra/eti.html#mafia
> http://www.thomaspynchon.com/v/alpha/m.html
>
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