Ayn Rand/ or Merry Christmas Anti-Utopia Jim!

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'I decide to go in and ask for <i>Thus Spake
Zarathustra.</i> The woman behind the counter shakes
her head: no, she doesn't think there's a copy in the
store. Still, if I'm willing to examine the titles of
the books on the topmost shelves...and she points to
a small ladder. 
              As I begin to mount it, she says, "Why
don't you read Ayn Rand instead? She too is a fascist."

I tell her pointedly that she is mistaken, Nietzche
was not a fascist, and turn to look at the books my
head is now level with.' -Irving Layton (from the
'Observations I' section of The Whole Bloody Bird)

'Since I no longer expect
anything from mankind except
madness,
meanness, and mendacity;
egotism,
cowardice,
and 
self-delusion,
I have stopped
being a
misanthrope.'
   -irvinglayton

'If His right eye offend you,
pluck it out.'
   -irvinglayton

'Communist idealism:
giving people the benefit of the clout.'
  -irvinglayton.


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