a collection of "Words of Note": your favorite speeches & quotes
So, about 3 weeks ago, mminnick said “There are time that I wish a collection of the key speeches of the protagonist in Fountain Head and Atlas Shrugged , Anthem and We the Living were collected under one cover for easy reference. Has anybody done this. Anybody else think it is a good idea?”
and I said “I do. I really do. In fact, I'll start a thread on that under Books and invite everyone to tell me what they think is most important. I'm out of town for a couple of days, although I'll have internet access in the evenings, and we'll see where it goes.”
Thus this thread, tentatively titled “Words of Note”.
I invite you to share your collection of key speeches, and also your collection of great quotes, and, as I found out in my second example, great moments.
I would request a few organizational standards [had the hardest time with those words, it’s clunky but you’ll see what I mean, I hope!].
It is very ponderous to quote whole speeches, but you can give the book title, character speaking, background if you think it’s necessary, and beginning and ending lines. And PLEASE give a comment about why you chose what you chose.
No, you may not post "AS, my hardback copy pg. 1 – 1168. reason for posting: DUH!" It’s correct, but lazy.
Example:
from AS, my hardback copy pg. 410, PART II, section 2: Francisco’s “money speech”
“So you think that money is the root of all evil?…
Rearden stood motionless, seeing nothing but Francisco d’ Anconia…
I ended my selection not where the speech ended, but at the reaction which Frisco was there to get – the “setting of the hook”.
example the second
interaction, from AS, my hb copy p. 354-7, PART II section 1
Robert Stadler and Dagny Taggart
“She could not tell why….
…”No, I don’t know anyone I’d care to recommend to you.”
There are irrelevancies in these pages, but the conversation stands out from them. Stadler puts into words what Dagny and Rearden [and others] should not have to fight, but do – the absence of the mind.
I also invite you to comment and converse on others’ posts, of course. The “collapse” feature is helpful here, so that you can follow a particular discussion.
I hope it is not hubris to think that this is the sort of activity which would go on in Rand’s Gulch – a continuing discussion of ideas and thoughts they spark.
and I said “I do. I really do. In fact, I'll start a thread on that under Books and invite everyone to tell me what they think is most important. I'm out of town for a couple of days, although I'll have internet access in the evenings, and we'll see where it goes.”
Thus this thread, tentatively titled “Words of Note”.
I invite you to share your collection of key speeches, and also your collection of great quotes, and, as I found out in my second example, great moments.
I would request a few organizational standards [had the hardest time with those words, it’s clunky but you’ll see what I mean, I hope!].
It is very ponderous to quote whole speeches, but you can give the book title, character speaking, background if you think it’s necessary, and beginning and ending lines. And PLEASE give a comment about why you chose what you chose.
No, you may not post "AS, my hardback copy pg. 1 – 1168. reason for posting: DUH!" It’s correct, but lazy.
Example:
from AS, my hardback copy pg. 410, PART II, section 2: Francisco’s “money speech”
“So you think that money is the root of all evil?…
Rearden stood motionless, seeing nothing but Francisco d’ Anconia…
I ended my selection not where the speech ended, but at the reaction which Frisco was there to get – the “setting of the hook”.
example the second
interaction, from AS, my hb copy p. 354-7, PART II section 1
Robert Stadler and Dagny Taggart
“She could not tell why….
…”No, I don’t know anyone I’d care to recommend to you.”
There are irrelevancies in these pages, but the conversation stands out from them. Stadler puts into words what Dagny and Rearden [and others] should not have to fight, but do – the absence of the mind.
I also invite you to comment and converse on others’ posts, of course. The “collapse” feature is helpful here, so that you can follow a particular discussion.
I hope it is not hubris to think that this is the sort of activity which would go on in Rand’s Gulch – a continuing discussion of ideas and thoughts they spark.
"Thousands of years ago, the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the stake, he had taught his brothers to light." Howard Roark