-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- An entity calling itself something like Alan Horowitz <alanh@infi.net> might have been overheard muttering something along the lines of:
Did Ayn Rand have any good sexual peccedillos?
Some of her female characters like to have rape fantasies enacted on the very border of consent. She had an affair with her chief student with the knowledge and presumably consent of both of their respective spouses. She thought that a woman who wanted to be President of the U.S. and rule over men would become a sexless, embittered spinster because she couldn't enjoy being dominated. :-) I would call those "good ones", but YMMV. :-) This is making me feel kind of sleazy. For what it is worth I think that Rand has some of the best ideas in philosophy, and furthermore presented them in a (more or less) integrated system which has profoundly useful applications to both theoretical philosophy and everyday life, not to mention dramatically publicizing and popularizing philosophical ideas in a social and political context. Rand's ideas are wildly under-rated by most serious thinkers and wildly over-rated by most of her followers. It is a shame that her acid polemics, kooky tangents, and personality cult have distracted most people from her valuable insights. Which brings us back to the original subject of this thread, although nowhere close to the original topic of this forum. Regards, Bryce #include <stddisclaimer.h> /* speaking for myself, not for Digicash at this time. */ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i Comment: Auto-signed under Unix with 'BAP' Easy-PGP v1.1b2 iQB1AwUBMfVKjEjbHy8sKZitAQHZ0AL/dk3UCs/SBX7LEtaH1oInnXtZoswKm9J7 RxXx80HMw95Ym1ihjRoNJqwp1uxieuN+1p9JQpzyxc6/WJWzPF8SmE/vkith7eiL JSLY9CR0O3J1sTCzJaSlGk9Yfs39EzAG =V+jp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----