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There is trouble in the forest.
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Originally posted by Not Bob
Literally, IYKWIMAITYD.
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The comments to that post are like a gold mine of unintentional comedy. Here's one Rand fan:
- Rand is not "preachy, pedantic," or "long winded." Nothing of her theme is not also found in her plot, in the logic of the events of her story. This is a rare thing to find in any literature. Her purpose was not propaganda or instruction, but contemplation and enjoyment. For a great many readers, her novels are exciting fun. She is also the most economical writer and the tightest novelist you can find. Her characters are much richer than Dickens's and far more pleasant to contemplate than most of Nabokov's. They behave more "believably" than many people I've actually known in reality - and, the heroes, far more logically. The same outcomes from the behaviors involved are to be found in both reality and Rand's work.
She is the Alpha and the Omega, apparently.
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