Sunday, May 29, 2011

Heinrich Boll, Ayn Rand, Mark Twain, Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad

- - - Doing right is even harder than it looks.
Engineers and sailors who would have thought they could write such insightful prose. Ayn Rand the
is the only writer that began her career as such.  It is ironic, that Ayn Rand though an excellent wordsmith and having writing as her first career produced the least powerful prose of the group.
They are an exceptional group soaring at the heights of literary achievement. But on average Ayn
Rand's prose approaches but never surpasses the power and poetry of the others.

Maybe it was her dedication to her philosophy that distracted her from the  literary heights she could
have achieved.

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