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From: myers@uwvax.ARPA (Jeff Myers)
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Subject: Re: My first Rand!
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Date: Sun, 2-Oct-83 21:33:28 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  2 21:33:28 1983
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Just picked up my first Ayn Rand novel today... Of course it only cost a
quarter (I'm no fool).  It's the 25th Anniversary Edition of *The Fountainhead*.
Just glanced at the 25th Anniversary special Introduction by herself; I found
the conclusion to be rather interesting...

	"It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp
	and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature--and that the
	rest will betray it.  It is those few that move the world and give
	life its meaning--and it is those few that I have always sought to
	address.  The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or *The
	Fountainhead* that they will betray: it is their own souls.

	New York, May 1968 [remember Paris '68?]	Ayn Rand"

My, my.  Elitist, ain't she?!  Such contempt for the "vulgar masses" reminds
one of Bruno Bauer and the Young Hegelians; both felt that it was up to the
learned philosophers to save the world; those that don't understand... well
too bad for them.

Always looking for classical ideological statements posed as truth,
Jeff Myers