Thanks OA. I sent an e mail to the author and I hope he will let us know when it is released. I told him I would post it here.

Thank you.
1. Yes. He needs approval or at least some reaction. Toohey is the master of manipulative influence.
2. I thought his career was hopelessly broken by that point. I don't remember if he had any hope of coming back.
3. I didn't understand why he was acting like that and only vaguely understood he and Toohey treated her that way or why it caused her bizarre change in personality. He and Toohey are amazing villains, much scarier than tough-guy villains.

Hello richrobinson,
That was great. It was so good in fact, I saved it to my Rand file.
When/ if anyone hears about the completion and release of the book, I would appreciate an update.
Respectfully,
O.A.

1. Peter has no independent judgement. He needs approval. Toohey has been the standard to his importance
2. Toohey has had the power to make or break his career.
3. Peter doesn 't value himself enough to have valued his relationship with Toohey 's niece

I meant why *does* Peter want Toohey to stay even after Toohey admits to being evil. Maybe it's b/c the evil form of altruism took his g/f away, and Toohey represents that evil altruism. I don't know. I couldn't understand why Peter cared about Toohey.

The com/soc/prog have been doing it for at least 120 years. But they have had full time Alinskys to drive them. Our problem is that we are busy creating tomorrow while they work full time creating the past. Rand was making a point in A.S. but it cannot be done in one generation. It will take many years of dedication to return the USA to freedom. Unless, of course, you forget about America and concentrate on Atlantis.

True.

A very important part of the speech. Not that easy to do.

well said! . if only "we" could join forces better!!! -- j

So they are. Not as many as there should be, but enough to hold the earth up.

oh, no! they hide in plain sight, like the truck driver
and his mate in the black-out cab, the waitress
with her husband who works at sears changing
tires and batteries, and the CEO who appears to be
single, but who meets with his small business owner
wife on weekends when everyone thinks that he
is slaving away in the penthouse over P&L and
marketing study reports. . they are everywhere!!! -- j

p.s. proof? the nov4 vote.

I like that.

I would phrase it differently, since I think of 'love' as a type of romantic relationship that easily transcends philosophies. (I observe this; I would not personally want a man for a lover who was out of synch with me philosophically.) Saying 'all he wants is love' makes the putative hero seem like a needy puppy...not my idea of a hero.

I would say that 'What a Rand hero really wants is to be amongst members of his own 'species'.' This is why we congregate here in The Gulch. To be able to talk to our own tribe.

Jan

Congratulations to you both.

Jan

It does work. The only problem is that heroes and heroines are not always readily apparent.

it's why I worked so damned hard at school, then
at work, and tried to learn all that I could about
everything worthwhile ... for her, whoever she
might be, to join me in enjoying it all. . worked!!! -- j

what's it all for? . the poetry of a man and a woman
sweating all over one another, making a child and
staying together to raise her, or him, to additional success! -- j

Great article! Thank you for posting it.

"Ayn Rand rejected most of the conventional categories into which philosophical and political positions are supposed to be sorted, and this rejection of false alternatives is a major theme of her work. "

"Incidentally, this is why most parodies of Ayn Rand end up seeming so lame. "

"In Ayn Rand’s novels, all the heroes are rich and the bad guys are poor, right?
It’s closer to the opposite."

This is one of my favorite articles I've read about Ayn Rand.
It made me think about Peter Keating in the Fountainhead. Why doesn't he want Toohey to stay after Toohey admits to undermining achievement just because he can? Maybe all Keating wants is love and friendship too, but he went about getting it the wrong way.

One of the concepts that had a powerful impact on me is (paraphrasing) if you think of yourself as a hero, you'll seek a heroine for a mate. I found that in order to think of myself as a hero, I needed to acquire much different knowledge and attitude, and it was the beginning of what was for me, a transformation.

".....that any value you might find outside your work, any other loyalty or love, can only be travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction." ..... Excerpt from Galt's speech. A very profound point I think.

I saw The Fountainhead as a Netflix snail-mail DVD about two weeks ago.
Spoiler alert!
I loved that worker's elevator scene at the end when the star-crossed lovers were at last uncrossed on the highest building of the world.

Me also.

Thanks mdk.