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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (295375)3/7/2009 8:29:20 PM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation   of 793866
 
Presumably unlike Megan who has it figured out: < It's a pity she didn't quite get how human beings worked, especially herself. >

From the little I've read of Ayn Rand, which is not much, being aliterate, [once through of Atlas Shrugged only a decade ago - I'd never heard of Ayn Rand that I can recall], she had a pretty good perspective on what makes people tick. It seems fashionable for commentary like Megan's = sagely pontificating with an air of superiority [which never seems to be deserved].

Megan thinks the "cartoon characters" spoil the book. Has she seen Picasso pictures? Novels don't have to be precision representations like actual people: <If only the people in her novels had acted remotely like actual people rather than comic book characters, I, too, would be rereading the thing now>

If Pablo Picasso archweb.it Vincent Van Gogh blogs.princeton.edu Salvador Dali artknowledgenews.com and all those painters had painted pictures of actual people, I guess she'd be interested in looking at them.

My favourite literature is Carl Barks' Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge comics. Those were definitely cartoon characters, not actual people. The Simpsons seems to do okay decade after decade. But I suppose Megan dabbles only in "real characters", such as that lady who got pregnant in a TV series and offended an important politician who had to have it explained to him that it wasn't a real person, it was just somebody pretending to be somebody on TV.

My guess is Ayn had a much better understanding of actual people than does Megan.

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