/lit/ - Literature

What does /lit/ think of Ayn Rand and her novels?

She had some interesting thoughts about literature.

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/literature.html

Basically, Romanticism is real literature and everything else is shit

Does anyone outside America give a damn about Ann Rand?

Seriously, fuck this cunt. My Dad tries to use her books as a reference in arguments.

What are good source of moderate objectivism?

Something with the good core tenants of objectivism without the over-the-top crazy shit of Ayn Rand.

If anyone wants to discuss it, it's cool too.

>In December of 1927, Hickman showed up at a Los Angeles public school and managed to get custody of a twelve-year-old girl, Marian Parker. He was able to convince Marian's teacher that the girl's father, a well-known banker, had been seriously injured in a car accident and that the girl had to go to the hospital immediately. The story was a lie. Hickman disappeared with Marian, and over the next few days Mr. and Mrs. Parker received a series of ransom notes. The notes were cruel and taunting and were sometimes signed "Death" or "Fate." The sum of $1,500 was demanded for the child's safe release. The father raised the payment in gold certificates and delivered it to Hickman.

>"At the rendezvous, Mr. Parker handed over the money to a young man who was waiting for him in a parked car. When Mr. Parker paid the ransom, he could see his daughter, Marion, sitting in the passenger seat next to the suspect. As soon as the money was exchanged, the suspect drove off with the victim still in the car. At the end of the street, Marion's corpse was dumped onto the pavement. She was dead. Her legs had been chopped off and her eyes had been wired open to appear as if she was still alive. Her internal organs had been cut out and pieces of her body were later found strewn all over the Los Angeles area."

>The mutilations Hickman inflicted on little Marian were worse than reported in the excerpt above. He cut the girl's body in half, and severed her hands (or arms, depending on the source). He drained her torso of blood and stuffed it with bath towels. There were persistent rumors that he molested the girl before killing her, though this claim was officially denied. Overall, the crime is somewhat reminiscent of the 1947 Black Dahlia case, one of the most gruesome homicides in L.A. history.

I think we know the answer to the question in OP

Fun fact, Rand's subtext to architecture in The Fountainhead is also about literature.

The more you know.

Would you fuck Ayn Rand?

Why does /lit/ hate Ayn Rand? She's one of the best authors of the 20th century.

Why is she so perfect?

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and the worst.

ALL THE OTHER FUCKERS IN THIS THREAD DONE FAILED
MY NAME'S DAGNY TAGGART AND YOU'RE ABOUT TO GET RAILED

I FUCK LIKE AN ANIMAL WHEN REARDEN'S ALL OVER ME
JAMES TAGGART IS MY BROTHER BUT HE'S THE ONE WITH THE OVARIES
YEAH NIGGUH DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHAT YOU WRITE
YOU COMMI ASS FAGGOTS ARE PARASITES
OBJECTIVIST THEORY IS THE WAY TO BE
I DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT POVERTY
IF YOU CAN'T KEEP UP DON'T BLAME THE RICH
OR I'LL LEAVE YOU HANGIN LIKE A MOTHERFUCKING BITCH

IT'S TIME TO WRAP UP THIS RAP OF MINE
FUCK MUSSOLINI I MADE THE TRAINS RUN ON TIME
AND IF YOU'RE EVER FEELING OPPRESSED BY A RICH WHITE MAN
YOU CAN SUCK MY FUCKING DICK MY NAME IS AYN RAND

Halp me /lit/... I would like to become a more established writer and so have been looking for a place to start, regardless of how small the publication may be. Does anyone know of any websites or organizations that would allow me a decent start to getting myself published?


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what are everybody’s thoughts about Ayn Rand’s works and philosophy? I don’t know too much. i just started reading ‘Anthem’.

I'll just leave this here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W07bFa4TzM&feature=player_embedded

I am currently reading the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Surprisingly my English teacher recommended it to me considering she's a hardcore Catholic.

What does /lit/ think?

Did anyone else watch the lecture tonight? Jesus Christ, I have never seen anything so buttfuck-retarded. It was supposed to last 50 minutes, but instead we get 2 hours of ponderous self-congratulation and preaching to the choir. Also,
>SMALL BUT VERY POWERFUL

ITT: The greatest literary hypocrites, people who didn't practice what they preached and instead even did the opposite.

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>Rand is incorrect because logic isn't an objective process and every human being already uses logic and rationale. The problem is that we must use logic through the well of limited information that we posses as individuals, collected through our own interpretations of said data via subjective lenses of perception.

>It seems sound reasoning to say that an objective truth does exist, but we're hopeless to do anything else but have a "hunch" as to what it might be. Because for all we know, there could come a day when everything mankind has ever learned proves to be false. Obviously, as our brains are problem solving machines, we have to come to conclusions about what is or isn't true if for no other reason than to alleviate mental stress. We can't live in constant doubt. This still doesn't give us the ability to say, with confidence, that things are, in an absolute sense, objectively truths.

>what does /lit/ think?
/lit/ does not think.

I think it was a good book. Characters were a bit dimensional, but that was intentional. It was meant to be a book about a particular kind of philosophy. It achieved it aim superbly. The plot is full of tension. There is a Hero who conquers his way through life. There is a Heroine who defeats her sense of distress at the world in the end. There is an ally who turns traitor at the end and is defaced. There are villains who suffer a moral loss at the end due to the Hero's victory.

What is there not to like?
There are long speeches. Roark makes a 20 page long commentary on Rand's philosophy (as the book is Explicitly mentioned to be a vehicle for that purpose). But it does not get boring at least at the forst read (to me).

I do disagree with some finer interpretation of the ideology, but that's for everyone to choose for themselves.