tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799077608689973270.post2085753734910972216..comments2019-06-12T02:34:09.154-07:00Comments on The American Individualist: The Virtue of … Objectivist “Proselytizing”Joseph Kellardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05792444138935346026noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799077608689973270.post-91590287159577794352010-03-08T02:19:24.242-08:002010-03-08T02:19:24.242-08:00Anonymous: Thanks for telling your interesting sto...Anonymous: Thanks for telling your interesting story. I remember perfectly well my long road to finally picking up a book by Ayn Rand. It started at about 12, when my older sister was reading the 25th anniversary edition of The Fountainhead, and I was in my mid to late 20s when I first picked up Ayn Rand's interview with Playboy. After that, I finally picked up The Fountainhead and was captured by its story and ideas. I then turned to The Virtue of Selfishness and read all her books after that.Joseph Kellardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05792444138935346026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799077608689973270.post-27685792810688913112010-03-08T01:39:49.572-08:002010-03-08T01:39:49.572-08:00When I was a young private in the US Army, I lived...When I was a young private in the US Army, I lived in a sort of "dorm for grunts" where the average residents age was probably 19, and the smell of stale beer was constant. I remember making this comment to a fellow soldier about the whole scene I was surrounded by, a stranger really, clean cut, sober, out of place in this barbarous confluence. This guy then handed me a copy of The Fountainhead. I never saw him again after that. I read part of it. Put it down. Then years later (mabye a decade) picked it up and read it,and loved it, and it changed my life. If the way in which a book is presented to someone is unique, at some point, they may appreciate that, and read it. Even if the little girl never reads the book, or any Rand book, she may view that encounter with you as her official initiation to a world, with "many" ideas, rather than the world she was doomed to begin in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com