Quote of the Day

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”

20 thoughts on “Quote of the Day

  1. Q:What’s the difference between Michael Jackson and a grocery bag?

    A: one of them is made of plastic and dangerous to leave around small children; the other is used to carry groceries.

  2. Q:What’s the difference between Michael Jackson and a grocery bag?

    A: one of them is made of plastic and dangerous to leave around small children; the other is used to carry groceries.

  3. Ooh. I’d almost say Rand should be a controlled substance, but that would only give it an alcohol-like shininess. What could the solution be?

    As for me, I read The Fountainhead at 15 or 16, but EPIPHANY arose from Ender’s Game. I read Heinlein then, too, but he was not so much a bolt from the blue as one of the formative underpinnings of my adult mind.

  4. Ooh. I’d almost say Rand should be a controlled substance, but that would only give it an alcohol-like shininess. What could the solution be?

    As for me, I read The Fountainhead at 15 or 16, but EPIPHANY arose from Ender’s Game. I read Heinlein then, too, but he was not so much a bolt from the blue as one of the formative underpinnings of my adult mind.

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