<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2715.400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080>was killing some time in a library in Palm Desert, Calif -- as you can imagine, a hot bed of liberalism, with sunny bono for frosting.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080>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.     </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080>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."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080>ayn appears to have missed all the stages of mammalian evolution following lizard and leading to homo sapien.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#000080>R</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=gadfly@exitleft.org href="mailto:gadfly@exitleft.org">ravi</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 18, 2002 5:56 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Greenspan, thinking</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Luke Weiger wrote:<BR>>  <BR>> Umm, yeah.  He used to sit in on her reading circles.  There are even<BR>> unsubstatianted (and denied) rumors of an affair between the two.<BR>>  <BR><BR>a few moments of irrational exhuberance, perhaps? (after all, since rand<BR>cannot permit such sentiments as love, her characters tend to rape each<BR>other, if i recall correctly my silly teenage reading of fountainhead).<BR><BR>--ravi<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>