Feb. 6th, 2005

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Забавная подборка цитат на тему книг и "философии" Айн Рэнд -- http://www.reason.com/0503/fe.rand.shtml:

“From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: ‘To the gas chambers—go!’.…A tornado might feel this way, or Carrie [sic] Nation.” — Whittaker Chambers, National Review (1957)

“Atlas Shrugged is a celebration of life and happiness. Justice is unrelenting. Creative individuals and undeviating purpose and rationality achieve joy and fulfillment. Parasites who persistently avoid either purpose or reason perish as they should. [The New York Times reviewer] suspiciously wonders ‘about a person who sustains such a mood through the writing of 1,168 pages and some fourteen years of work.’ This reader wonders about a person who finds unrelenting justice personally disturbing.” — Alan Greenspan, future chairman of the Federal Reserve, responding to a negative review of Atlas Shrugged, in The New York Times (1957)

“Like most of my contemporaries, I first read The Fountainhead when I was 18 years old. I loved it. I too missed the point. I thought it was a book about a strong-willed architect...and his love life….I deliberately skipped over all the passages about egoism and altruism. And I spent the next year hoping I would meet a gaunt, orange-haired architect who would rape me. Or failing that, an architect who would rape me. Or failing that, an architect. I am certain that The Fountainhead did a great deal more for architects than Architectural Forum ever dreamed.” — Nora Ephron, The New York Times Book Review (1968)

“Yes, at first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read this: Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of shit, I am never reading again.” — police officer Barbrady, South Park (1998)

А Гринспан-то каков, а? "Parasites ... perish, as they should". Криптофашист, однако.
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Предельно банальное наблюдение, но все же ... Самые яркие моменты путешествий это когда оказываешься в местах, о которых что-то читал в контексте, не имеющем прямого отношения к путешествиям, или вспоминаешь в связи с ними текст какой-нибудь песни. Вполне возможно, что в самих этих местах нет ничего примечательного, но персональный ассоциативный ряд наполняет их некоей сакральностью, а посещение их становится своего рода паломничеством.

Вот, например, Палаццо Капони во Флоренции у меня прочно ассоциируется с Ганнибалом Лектером, доктором медицины и ницшеанским сверхчеловеком, лондонский Camden Lock с гребенщиковским "Гарсоном No. 2", а South Kensington и Natural History Museum с солнечными песнями наивного шотландского хиппи Донована. Или вот [livejournal.com profile] sguez на днях упомянул портовый город Картахену, и не как-нибудь, а в контексте Рафаэля Сабатини.

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