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But Rand's use of characters such as Danny have to be considered from a literary and mythological point of view. It may have been a mistep, but a minor one, because Rand's project involved inverting traditional values and involved Trickster characters who blur boundaries between morality and immorality when the good is at the disadvantage of the powerful who claim that bad is good and good is bad. She explains this through the writer in "The Simplest Thing in the World", where the writer uses stock villians and turns them into heroes. When you're challenging 2000 years of Christianity, you're bound to deal with unsavory characters like Hickman, and Prescott would do well to understand this point in Rand's development.
(Edited by Joe Maurone
on 10/13, 11:00pm)
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I must say I am impressed with the SOLOists who have shown up here. Both in terms of intellectual seriousness and basic civility, you folks are a BIG step up from the ARI people I have encountered!
