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Posted 03/14/2008 7:27 pm
QUOTE GFR3 "longnine009: I love your signature--Atlas Shrugged helped shape my mind from a young young age."
I only wish I had read it 20 years ago. Artists, particularly novelists, IMO, are the best futurists and they don't even know it. They simply write what they want and dont't bother to justify anything with logic and rationale, which are the exact things that can never precede shock & surprise.
"He felt safe in the oak tree's presence; it was a thing that
nothing could change or threaten; it was his greatest symbol of
strength.
One night, lightning struck the oak tree. Eddie saw it the next
morning. It lay broken in half, and he looked into its trunk as
into the mouth of a black tunnel. The trunk was only an empty shell;
its heart had rotted away long ago; there was nothing inside--just a
thin gray dust that was being dispersed by the whim of the faintest
wind. The living power had gone, and the shape it left had not
been able to stand without it."
Atlas Shrugged--Ayn Rand
I only wish I had read it 20 years ago. Artists, particularly novelists, IMO, are the best futurists and they don't even know it. They simply write what they want and dont't bother to justify anything with logic and rationale, which are the exact things that can never precede shock & surprise.
"He felt safe in the oak tree's presence; it was a thing that
nothing could change or threaten; it was his greatest symbol of
strength.
One night, lightning struck the oak tree. Eddie saw it the next
morning. It lay broken in half, and he looked into its trunk as
into the mouth of a black tunnel. The trunk was only an empty shell;
its heart had rotted away long ago; there was nothing inside--just a
thin gray dust that was being dispersed by the whim of the faintest
wind. The living power had gone, and the shape it left had not
been able to stand without it."
Atlas Shrugged--Ayn Rand
