they had a biography of ayn rand which i read part of and looked at the pictures. interesting stuff about her frustrated, narcissistic childhood in russia -- although the author, a rand disciple, certainly didn't intend to present it that way.
al g appeared in many of the pictures with ayn and the gang, sometimes lurking in the background, the eminence gris of randy fascism. he was definitely a part of the inner circle. ayn was almost smiling in a couple of pix, looking like a demented rosa klebb in From Russia with Love. in her lexicon, real men prefer rape -- it's such a good teaching tool. and real women are romanticized and simply dazzled by this display of masculine dominance, which generates instant respect and a new found insight into their "femininity."
ayn appears to have missed all the stages of mammalian evolution following lizard and leading to homo sapien.
R
----- Original Message -----
From: ravi
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 5:56 AM
Subject: Re: Greenspan, thinking
Luke Weiger wrote:
>
> Umm, yeah. He used to sit in on her reading circles. There are even
> unsubstatianted (and denied) rumors of an affair between the two.
>
a few moments of irrational exhuberance, perhaps? (after all, since rand
cannot permit such sentiments as love, her characters tend to rape each
other, if i recall correctly my silly teenage reading of fountainhead).
--ravi
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