'Safe'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
joe, she wrote one piece that I loved. It was the first chapter of one of her books. She described something about how the woman stood on the threshold of train door like a dancer in the wings, waiting before a performance. How she ended that chapter (bringing it around to that image), was succinct and just beautiful.
It stuck with me more so than objectivism itself.
PC, most of his books deal with duality. It was Narcissus and Goldmand that got me. What a fantastic book. I'm a bit afraid to reread less I like it much less than I did then.
I worry about rereading Hermann Hesse for just this reason.
I remember reading Beneath the Wheel as a break during finals. Bad, bad idea. Very bad.
My Rand epiphany was early high school, by junior year I was over it. I have a friend who is just now reading it and having her epiphany. I keep trying to tell her to lie down and it will pass.
I think I was the wrong age for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I just couldn't get too excited about Phaedros.
YAY!
*Happy Dance*
I have Wonderfalls DVD Goodness!!!
Not quite sure how, given that the release date is Feb 1st, but my generous Father had apparently ordered them as a (belated) Christmas gift, and they arrived on his doorstep yesterday!
I am giddy with anticipation at sitting sown and watching the entire series, and basking in commentary goodness.
Favourite bit from my quick look so far: Tim using the word "specificity" in one of the special features. That is now my word of the day.
*sings* "I wonder wonder why the wonderfalls......."
I think I was the wrong age for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I just couldn't get too excited about Phaedros.
I hit it as a sophamore in college and that was about perfect. I still think the importance of Rhetoric is misunderstood.
I think I was the wrong age for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
This may have been my problem. I tried to read it in college, and all my friends were all into it, but I couldn't actually finish it. Zen and the Art of Archery, though, I loved.
Sigh. I have to wait and see if anyone gets me Wonderfalls for my birthday before I buy it myself, even though I'm firly sure no one will.
I'm extremely jealous of The Partyman right now.
I think my Ayn Rand issue (and Tim, frankly, I don't give a shit if you think she's brilliant. You're wrong.) rests around the idea that her whole philosophy was justification for behavior that was juvenile and selfish, unnecessarily self-important and self-indulgent and just generally crappy.
So much word. And amusement at the third wife gig.