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- From: gambit@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ()
- Subject: Re: what i think of ayn rand
- References: <93025.135012RMACMIL@auvm.american.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:13:49 GMT
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- In article <93025.135012RMACMIL@auvm.american.edu> Robert B. MacMillan <RMACMIL@auvm.american.edu> writes:
- >after having read the fountainhead, i can honestly say that i think she
- >is one of the most talented writers in the western world.
- >that was my first opinion. my second is that she has the shittiest most
- >reprehensible, pseudo-fascist philosophy i have ever had the misfortune to
- >read. i am glad she's dead.
- >help, someone, please recommend me something that will make me feel different
- >about this cold-hearted bitch who can write like no one i've ever seen...
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- "Pseudo-fascist"????? I know how you can feel different about her. Reread
- the book, and PAY ATTENTION this time!
-
- You are not the first person I've heard say this. Someone please explain to
- me how in the hell you can read her works and get the idea that she is
- advocating facism (as you said), or communism (one I heard before). Such an
- evaluation is in absolute contradiction to EVERYTHING she wrote!
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- Benjamin W. Lagow
- Grad Res Asst, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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