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To: Father Terrence who wrote (37466)	5/9/1999 7:45:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Right, the radio transmission that I was always sure would have stunned the country into sleep long before its end. One of the things I always found amusing about Rand was that she'd make her points with great clarity in the story line and then, just in case some poor lout had missed the point, she'd haul in one of these desperate monologues. What I meant was that I find it revealing that as Rand refined her idea of the heroic personality from the Howard Roark of The Fountainhead to John Galt, the type became steadily drained of personality itself. Howard Roark was already peculiar enough, since he would just sit staring at the phone while waiting for work. He might at least have read a magazine. Subsidiary characters, such as Hank Rearden and Dagney Taggart, possess something more like real personalities. This deadness of such central characters seems to indicate that Rand had passed beyond a desire for mere human beings as her ideals. (Jung probably would have detected an animus projection.) It is also an unhelpful bit of falseness with which to burden her case for capitalism.