AllMenAreIslands Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 Ayn Rand is like a spiritual grandmother to me. How about you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Andrew Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 Sidekick/Love interest (Psshaw, don't we all wish) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMeganSnow Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 I think she'd be most fun to have as an aunt--you know, the one that everyone *else* in the family thinks is crazy or at least unfortunately unconventional but gets you the best presents and takes you out to do fun stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Mom. To be raised as an Oist and not have to fumble around for 40 years to figure it out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenure Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 I think she'd be most fun to have as an aunt--you know, the one that everyone *else* in the family thinks is crazy or at least unfortunately unconventional but gets you the best presents and takes you out to do fun stuff. Hear, Hear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Her father. Imagine flipping through the pages of AS thinking "My little girl wrote this!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrolicsomeQuipster Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Publisher. This *points at fountainhead* got turned down how many times? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'kian Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 I can picture her as a Philosophy teacher either in highschool or college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KindredAmy Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 After listening to Dina Schein's "Ayn Rand's Home Atmosphere," I would have loved to be Ayn's fourth sister. This is an exceptional lecture, one that you should listen to if you want to understand that Ayn Rand was a real flesh/blood/mind person. And she was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackethan Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 I think she would've been a cool best friend/mentor type. Someone I could consult at any time about things going on in my life and she'd give me the best answer in the funnest way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Caya Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 I think I would prefer her as a mentor too. I have never had a really strong mentor in my life, so I've had to rely on reading and thinking about how different character I admire would act in a similar situation. I would love to have a very strong person like Ayn Rand in my life as a mentor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils_Advocate Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Love interest (Psshaw, don't we all wish) I hear you on that one! Love interest/boyfriend/husband tops the list. If I had to make it a blood relation, then mom. Like Zip said, To be raised as an Oist and not have to fumble around for 40 years to figure it out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllMenAreIslands Posted December 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 I love everyone's answers!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randroid Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 I think she'd be most fun to have as an aunt--you know, the one that everyone *else* in the family thinks is crazy or at least unfortunately unconventional but gets you the best presents and takes you out to do fun stuff. Thirded. Plus, she could have taught me some Russian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyronus Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 Aunt or Grandmother, although love interest might not be the worst thing. Shit, I'd just like to be able to hang out with her regardless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMeganSnow Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 Thirded. Plus, she could have taught me some Russian. I actually had an aunt like that, but she died while I was living in Germany. So I suppose Ayn Rand fills that mental space for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themadkat Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 I may be the only one to say something like this, but I'd have loved to be one of Rand's peers with whom I carried on an intense but mutually-respectful rivalry with an undercurrent of never-mentioned mutual admiration. To the outside world it might appear we intensely disliked each other but it wouldn't be so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMERICONORMAN Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 Either Leonard Peikoff or a peer who is a romantic novelist too and we consult regularly for decades as we learn more and more about literature and romanticism, so that we discuss all the great writers together. Like I would have liked to have received a phone call from her when she read Rostand's essay on Zola in his early career. I don't know whether she read this, but I am confident that she must have had to. I have no idea how to find this essay right now, I've just heard about it but I would love to read it. I would like to be the friend who trades book reports with her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Great Aunt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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