>>Fans may enjoy "the speech" but I guarantee that its intended audience would balk, just as they do when they try to read it
>>Actually, I loved Atlas Shrugged, but I thought that "the speech" was a bit redundant - I had already gotten the message.
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>Has anyone actually made it through the speech? I >really< tried. But I ended up skipping at least 20-30 pages. Fan or not, it's too dang long.
Ayn could be bored by many things, but never the sound of her own voice <s>.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
