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Old 05-29-2014, 10:03 AM   #17 (permalink)
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I've never made it through anything by Ayn Rand. I just... I can't. Too dull.
Oh god I know. If she wanted to write something that turns liberals into caricatures so overblown that it stops being useful as a critique then she should have just done another essay. Quit writing dull fiction, you cow. I got halfway through Atlas Shrugged and just couldn't take it anymore. I don't care about some revolutionary metal. I don't care about some revolutionary car engine. I don't care about a train ride. I don't care about what these are metaphors for. I just care about setting this book on fire so I can jump off a cliff to rid myself of your awful, awful writing.

And I say this as someone who was a goofy libertarian at the time.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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