gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith) (02/23/86)
In article <78@oucs.UUCP> joe@oucs.UUCP (Joseph Judge) writes: > Books: > The Virtue of Selfishness, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and > Anthem. ( + others) > By: > Ayn Rand. By all means read these books! Ayn Rand, posing as a serious philosopher and novelist, wrote these wonderfully ironic phantasy novels in the tradition of Swift. Of course, the unenlightened took her seriously, which adds to the fun. Ellsworth Tooey is a wonderful comic character among many others; her protagionists and their actions are deliciously idiotic. If you compare her work with Iris Murdoch, for instance, it is easily seen who is a better philosopher-novelist and who a better humorist. (Oh all right, if you insist -- :-) . There -- that better?). ucbvax!brahms!gsmith Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720 ucbvax!weyl!gsmith The Angry Number Theorist