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If you’ve been following the blog the last several days, you’re aware that this is temporary unofficial headquarters for the Hayley Clatterbuck Fan Club. Hayley acquitted herself well on the JEOPARDY tv game show on Tuesday and we’re all keeping our fingers crossed that she’ll get a Wild Card slot in the finals, since she ended up second to a Stanford guy (while handily whooping a Yale boy’s butt!)
She was the only one to correctly answer the Final Jeopardy Question: “What is the first line from the book ATLAS SHRUGGED?”–which gives me an opportunity to tell you to READ THIS BOOK!! It is available, of course, at Amazon right here.
Hayley is a philosophy major, so perhaps had some advantage over the other two contestants on this question (especially the Yale dufus). The author Ayn Rand, an immigrant from Russia, was one of America’s most important 20th century novelists and thinkers–and I can only hope that Hayley has read some of her works by now. (It probably hasn’t hurt that Hayley grew up just a few blocks from our neighborhood’s “John Galt Boulevard” either–named thusly by real estate developers who were obviously fans of Ms. Rand).
I have, over my lifetime, bought Ms. Rand’s book THE FOUNTAINHEADsix to ten times–not for myself, but because it is the one book I have read that I have wanted all of my friends (and family) to read. This book is a little more “accessible” than ATLAS SHRUGGED, being somewhat shorter than ATLAS’s, gulp, 1200 pages. You’ll need to set aside some time for it…
These are two of my desert island books. People I’ve bought them for have had their lives changed. Have fun!
