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Monday, November 10, 2003
"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think"...unless he reads bad literature. Then all bets are off.
I have to admit that I find Stephen Green's VodkaPundit a bit of a guilty pleasure. At times, it's so blantanly yuppie-licious I feel like I should tie a sweater around my neck when reading it. But I don't read it all the time, which is why you could have knocked me over with a copy of We The Living when I found out that Stephen is a...Randian.
TA: What do you like most about her writings?
Green: For someone who is a very happy person, I really like her hard edge and her bitterness. And I’m trying to think of a better way to describe that, but she had a very hard mind, a very tough mind. A mind that wouldn’t allow her to indulge in any wishful thinking. And in the real world, I think that’s a real necessity.
And when I say "bitterness," I don’t mean that she was mean, or resentful, but she was able to give you a solid look at the way politics works, as opposed to how it should work.
And the world she paints — especially in The Fountainhead — is just amazing.
TA: Yeah, I agree. So you read The Fountainhead first?
Green: I sure did. And I’ll tell you, it’s a less important book than Atlas Shrugged, but I think it’s a much better written one. Even her bad guys have a lot of humanity. Unlike in Atlas Shrugged, where they tend to be a bit more two-dimensional.
Whereas in The Fountainhead…. The scene that just popped into my head is the one before Howard Roark’s second trial, when Dominique goes back to her father — who, in the first part of the book, was an example of everything that was wrong with the business of architecture, and the art of architecture. In this scene, he and Dominique have a reconciliation and, in a very tender moment, he tells her that Roark will be acquitted. That was a scene that just lent a lot of depth to one of the villains of the piece.
I couldn't have been more disappointed if I found out he was a Scientologist who sells Amway...
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