Comments on: Book Review: Ayn Rand and the World she Created by Anne C. Heller http://stevengharms.com/book-review-ayn-rand-and-the-world-she-created-by-anne-c-heller My Blog Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:47:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Nicole Landes http://stevengharms.com/book-review-ayn-rand-and-the-world-she-created-by-anne-c-heller/comment-page-1#comment-2711 Nicole Landes Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:40:35 +0000 http://stevengharms.com/book-review-ayn-rand-and-the-world-she-created-by-anne-c-heller#comment-2711 <p>I thought of Thoreau when I read this...dropping his laundry off at his mother's before heading off back to "the shack" at Walden.</p> <p>I remember you commenting on a personal dislike of literature centered on boys' prep schools, but Tobias Wolff's "Old School" has some great passages concerning visiting authors like Rand. My favorite though are lines about Hemingway:</p> <p>"I myself was in debt to Hemingway — up to my ears. So was Bill. We even talked like Hemingway characters, through in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will be tragic and the meatloaf man will not come anymore."</p> <p>Hope all is well with you and Lauren in the west... ) Nicole L</p> I thought of Thoreau when I read this…dropping his laundry off at his mother’s before heading off back to “the shack” at Walden.

I remember you commenting on a personal dislike of literature centered on boys’ prep schools, but Tobias Wolff’s “Old School” has some great passages concerning visiting authors like Rand. My favorite though are lines about Hemingway:

“I myself was in debt to Hemingway — up to my ears. So was Bill. We even talked like Hemingway characters, through in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will be tragic and the meatloaf man will not come anymore.”

Hope all is well with you and Lauren in the west…
)
Nicole L

]]>