“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
I remember Ayn Rand from the days when she first best on the scene in New York.
As a loung boy watchng her interviewed on television I found her dour, unpleasant, conceited, overbearing, humorless, and generally obnoxious.
Yes she had some worthwhile things to say with which I later came to agree, but her militant determination to leave Jesus out of it blighted her presence on the intellectual scene.
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I remember Ayn Rand from the days when she first best on the scene in New York.
As a loung boy watchng her interviewed on television I found her dour, unpleasant, conceited, overbearing, humorless, and generally obnoxious.
Yes she had some worthwhile things to say with which I later came to agree, but her militant determination to leave Jesus out of it blighted her presence on the intellectual scene.
I thought of ducky when I heard this... he's always asking if "we want the full Ayn Rand".
Is that like The Full Monty? };^)>
If so, all I can say in Rand's case is YUCK!
Rand's brother Remington was much better looking than the Diabolical Diva. of Desolatheism.
DE-SO-LA-the-ism!
I suggest retaining that ne-minted coinage. It
Or don't you agree?
I think it has about it the ring of accuracy.
Implying "nothingness" or "nihilism"... so "yes".
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