this is a bit off topic, but–i’d love to have another meta-post from you about how to create that cool ripped-page excerpt image. (kinda like when you demonstrated how to reduce youtube clips to only show the control bar.)
So I’ve been out of the loop for quite some time. Yesterday I found Atlas Shrugged & The Anthem at the library, after I’d read how influential they’ve been. :) Now, you are quoting one. Weird…I guess I should read it.
Interesting quote, but… Hugh Akston was one of the “good guys” in Atlas Shrugged, so perhaps Ms. Rand was dead serious in this snippet dialog – rather than humorous.
Abraham, like your Dad, I was once an adherent & avid follower of Rand’s – her fiction and her wider view of life seemed so entrancing for a time. Re-reading her books now reveal that her prose were more predictable and even wooden than I remembered them.
Brilliant
I always loved this scene from Ayn Rand’s book The Fountainhead.
Here it is from the movie adaptation:
Awesome comeback!
I can totally see why you identify with that scene, what with your background as a crane operator.
Love reading Rand. Love her ability to make the badguys look like absolute badguys. She was great at that.
this is a bit off topic, but–i’d love to have another meta-post from you about how to create that cool ripped-page excerpt image. (kinda like when you demonstrated how to reduce youtube clips to only show the control bar.)
it’s cool & useful!
I just took the image from Language Log…I was actually wondering how it was made, too.
Sorry!
So I’ve been out of the loop for quite some time. Yesterday I found Atlas Shrugged & The Anthem at the library, after I’d read how influential they’ve been. :) Now, you are quoting one. Weird…I guess I should read it.
Atlas Shrugged, Mrs. Erven. Here’s a nice ref to go along with it: http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Articles/ByDate/1979/1486_The_Ethics_of_Ayn_Rand/
Interesting quote, but… Hugh Akston was one of the “good guys” in Atlas Shrugged, so perhaps Ms. Rand was dead serious in this snippet dialog – rather than humorous.
Abraham, like your Dad, I was once an adherent & avid follower of Rand’s – her fiction and her wider view of life seemed so entrancing for a time. Re-reading her books now reveal that her prose were more predictable and even wooden than I remembered them.