Ayn Rand

One more from Fountain Head that has remained etched in mind:-

"Look, Gail" Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now, I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life"

"Your strength?"

"Your work." He tossed the branch aside.. The material the earth offers you and what you make of it ....."

 

Simple but eloquent.. My intro with her though was Fountain Head.. I read Atlas Shrugged and then read We, the living... Unfortunately her other books were either too forceful or focusing on the negatives of non-individuality..

 

Thanks ... indeed

 

Hi

Thanks for participation. True.. I read it in the first year of my college. Changed my perspective so much so that the word Ego was given a different ideology in my dictionary

Good to know you are in your family way.. Read it again now..

 

Hi Rakhii

Thanks for sharing your ideas. Utopianism has its own charm . I see shades of Roark in creative excellence existing amidst us and is agreed to and respected

When I was in college, when the world was a bed of roses to dream, I did think the world was not as bad a second hander as narrated. However, When I started working, the so called team work leading to Success-to-the-team and failure-attributed-to-the- individual usually a scape goat mentality made me re-read the book again.

Atlas Shrugged is still something I feel a little exaggerated on the consequences for there always exists shades of grey in between...

The thread is open for such healthy critical views.. Please share them..

Thanks Rakhii for the initiation