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On 11/12/2011 06:12 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Quoting Ruben Safir (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ruben@mrbrklyn.com">ruben@mrbrklyn.com</a>):
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<pre wrap="">I love it when you guys talk in code I don't understand.
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I'm not sure you could stand the pain entailed in reading an actual Ayn
Rand novel, so I offer the Usenet parody (in which I appear as a minor
character), as a gentler explanation:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/alt_shrugged.html">http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/alt_shrugged.html</a>
(See: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://everything2.com/title/alt.shrugged">http://everything2.com/title/alt.shrugged</a>)
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from wikipedia:<br>
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Rand was born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (<a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language"
title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Алиса
Зиновьевна Розенбаум</span>) on February 2, 1905, to a <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeois" title="Bourgeois"
class="mw-redirect">bourgeois</a> family living in <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint
Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a>. She was the eldest of the three
daughters of Zinovy Zakharovich Rosenbaum and Anna Borisovna
Rosenbaum, largely non-observant <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a>.
Rand's father was a successful pharmacist, eventually owning his own
pharmacy and the building in which it was located.<sup
id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#cite_note-3"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup>
Rand was twelve at the time of the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1917"
title="Russian Revolution of 1917" class="mw-redirect">Russian
Revolution of 1917</a>, during which her sympathies were with <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kerensky"
title="Alexander Kerensky">Alexander Kerensky</a>. Rand's family
life was disrupted by the rise of the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshevik" title="Bolshevik">Bolshevik</a>
party under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin"
title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a>. Her father's pharmacy
was confiscated by the Bolsheviks, and the family fled to the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea" title="Crimea">Crimea</a>,
which was initially under the control of the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Army" title="White Army"
class="mw-redirect">White Army</a> during the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War"
title="Russian Civil War">Russian Civil War</a>. She later
recalled that while in high school she determined that she was an <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheist" title="Atheist"
class="mw-redirect">atheist</a> and that she valued <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a>
above any other human attribute. After graduating from high school
in the Crimea, at 16 Rand returned with her family to Petrograd (the
new name for Saint Petersburg), where they faced desperate
conditions, on occasion nearly starving.<sup id="cite_ref-4"
class="reference"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#cite_note-4"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup><sup
id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#cite_note-5"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a><br>
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I hope this doesn't say anything about my childrens future...<br>
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Ruben<br>
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