Finally! The essay is up! At $10,000 - each word on average in that essay is worth just over $6.00! and paragraphs reach $1,000s! (although literarily it’s worth much more!)
How’s it feel being our OO celebrity? 
(Next time you come in the chatroom, I’m going to have my digicam on me, and I want my picture taken with you! 
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Great essay!
Your last line of the essay, I placed it in spoiler brackets for those who haven’t read it, although everything leads up to it.
Ayn Rand shows through these characters’ values, thoughts, and actions that being moral truly leads to achieving practical success. Keating sacrifices everything he loves for instant gratification. Roark is the hero who clings passionately to everything he loves because he values his own life and the fuel it requires to keep his mind, body, and spirit alive.
I loved this part so much that I want to keep it for my own reference.
I loved this part so much that I want to keep it for my own reference.
There are specific parts that are of considerable wealth literarily to me in her essay, but I didn’t paste any here, because of what it said at the bottom of that page. I wasn’t sure if I could. I think I’ve accidentally done that with a line or two from Peikoff’s site as well, not knowing I wasn’t supposed to. So, now I always check first.
There are specific parts that are of considerable wealth literarily to me in her essay, but I didn’t paste any here, because of what it said at the bottom of that page. I wasn’t sure if I could. I think I’ve accidentally done that with a line or two from Peikoff’s site as well, not knowing I wasn’t supposed to. So, now I always check first.
You’re right. Thanks for pointing that out to me. Could a moderator delete my posting #22, apparently it’s in violation of copyright. Thanks! B)
Just read it… Great work! How much time did you spend on this?
You’re right. Thanks for pointing that out to me. Could a moderator delete my posting #22, apparently it’s in violation of copyright. Thanks! B)
Nope, because it isn’t a violation. This is what’s known as “fair use”, i.e. it is allowed to copy short parts of a work for the purpose of comment and analysis.
David Odden: Defender of the, young, defenseless, snippets of information.
“I love them with my heart” - D. Odden, 2007.
About the actual essay: Mimpy, you perfectly skewed the practical/moral dichotomy in regards to the text. That essay was fluid and clear and a good essay. B)
Just read the essay. Very Nice Mimpy!
Congrats on the award. You deserve it.
Just read it… Great work! How much time did you spend on this?
I started writing the essay three weeks before the deadline. I just kept re-reading it and editing when I found the time.
Thanks, guys.