Ayn Rand has just finished “Тhe Fountainhead”. She has created a supreme masterpiece of manipulation. She managed to entangle everything good in the black web of spiritual death and to leave readers to wander hopelessly in the labyrinth of delusion. This book is her personal message to humanity and her biggest triumph over it. She must have been proud of herself. And then… the world did not understand her.
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Emotional pain is among the greatest gifts of humans and one of the abilities which makes them perfect. Only what’s living, real, and loving can suffer. Pain is a dark flower which blossoms from one’s depths and eternal rain which conceals the clearest sunrise.
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According to the Bible, the harbingers of the Apocalypse are the Four Horsemen – Conquest, Pestilence, War and Famine. This is exactly what the four characters whose names the Fountainhead’s parts carry reminds me of. Those characters are Peter Keating, Ellsworth Toohey, Gail Wynand and Howard Roark. These men are exactly the harbingers of an Apocalypse, but their names should be Mediocrity, Manipulation, Materialism and Apathy.
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An all-consuming, mad hunger for the slightest tinge of emotion… This is the determining quality of all characters in the book. Indifferent mechanisms that have nothing else but their success.
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John Galt is a contempt-deserving nobody. Ayn Rand is the one who will use him to destroy the world. And as for Atlas… he is here.
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