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Jan 07, 2007 19:47

You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with every day that passes.... They change, they deny, they contradict--and they call it growth. At the end there's nothing left, nothing unreversed or unbetrayed; as if there had never been an entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and out of an unformed mass. How do they expect a ( Read more... )

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veracifix January 10 2007, 02:21:38 UTC
I don't know. I've been meaning to read it too. ;)

Well thing is, I bought 'Anthem' by Ayn Rand and read it in one night (if you've read it you know it's very short). I was so impressed that I ended up pouring over the book again including the introduction and foreward etc. and an excerpt from 'The Fountainhead' came up. It made me think a lot, so I thought I might as well share.

According to Ms. Rand, 'Anthem' functions as a draft, a prequel to 'The Fountainhead', which is an overture to 'Atlas Shrugged'. I'm going to work my way through those then :)

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