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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: new news top level proposed (was Re: sci.philosophy.objectivism)
Keywords: Objectivism, Rand, newsgroup, philosophy
Message-ID: <25075@gryphon.COM>
Date: 20 Jan 90 22:36:08 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <ZJ41_G1xds8@ficc.uu.net> jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes:
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>> "philosophy.objectivism" (a novelist trying to create a coherent
>> philosophy is like an actor trying to be a president) will be a perfect
>> fit.
>
>You have it backward.  She was a philosopher using fiction to present
>her philosophy -- just as Jules Verne used fiction to present
>science.  

Horse pucky. One of my relatives lived near her. She would sit there,
cigar in her mouth writing this stuff cackling with glee, saying 
things like ``God, what I'll do to pay the rent'' and ``God, I
can't believe people lap this stuff up''.

I became rather disillusioned with her works when I heard this.

She and L. Ron Hubbard would have got along well.