> dm (Daniel Mahanty) wrote: > > > > Splendid company, indeed. Personal fascism and fantasy fiction. > > > >Catcher in the Rye is about fascism? > > > I think he meant Ayn Rand was a fascist and the Hobbit is fantasy fiction. > > For God's sake, give me some credit. I knew that "personal fascism" > referred to Atlas Shrugged. (I knew I should have added the smiley face > after my question, but it violates my principles to use those...) I was > just objecting to the use of the word fascist to describe Ayn Rand. Then maybe I should have put a smiley face after *my* comment. Cause it was only meant sardonically. What have you against smiley faces anyway? I think they're a fascinating development in the history of punctuation - `the carving of human images onto a cybernetic wall' I called it in an essay last year. I'm not a big fan of BTW and IMOH I must admit though ... (: I keep getting in trouble for putting them round the wrong way though. Is it (: or :)? or Elvis - (-:& Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest