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- From: mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu (Mitchell Marks)
- Subject: Re: Ayn Rand
- In-Reply-To: ddrumm@amiganet.chi.il.us's message of 18 Nov 92 07:50:34 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:26:59 GMT
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- >>>>> "DD" == Daniel Drumm <ddrumm@amiganet.chi.il.us> writes:
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- DD> I am looking for any information regarding clubs,
- DD> organizations or any other information including newsletters
- DD> concerning the work and life of Ayn Rand. If you have any
- DD> information about clubs, rare books and any other collector's
- DD> items, please leave me email.
-
- DD> Daniel Drumm
-
- I heartily recommend to all and sundry the excellent, intense, recent
- novel "Two Girls, Fat and Thin" by Mary Gaitskill, available in
- paperback. (Except perhaps not recommended to followers of Rand, if
- they're touchy about criticism.) The real force of the book is in the
- partly similar, partly contrasting life-histories of the two central
- characters, and their eventual meeting and interaction. The substrate
- of story supporting this is that one of them had been the intimate
- secretary to the charismatic leader of a "philosophical"/political
- movement, transparently modelled on Rand and Objectivism. The other
- central character is a researcher/writer for a magazine (well, she's
- also a medical receptionist); she posts an ad somewhat like DD's in
- laundromats and so on, and eventually finds and interviews the first
- woman. Their differing understanding of what's going on is
- plausibly developed and brilliantly executed.
-
- It would be interesting to learn the reactions to the book of a reader
- who feels strongly, one way or the other, about Rand. (Personally, I
- just shake my head in amazement at the boundaries of human belief.)
- Of course, chi.general is not the place for this -- if you want to
- discuss Gaitskill, let me know and I'll meet you at rec.books. [Whose
- volume is far too large for me to give the time to, so I rarely read it
- at all until someone clues me that there's something being discussed
- that I would be interested in.]
- --
- Mitch Marks mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu
- It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.
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