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> was she a good writer?
No. She was a great writer. She not only came up with an original philosophy and a strikingly original ethics, but managed to put it across in the form of complexly plotted, psychologically insightful fiction built on an aesthetic completely distinct from what passes for literary excellence among the bourgeois nihilists of the present-day. Lit/tards here hate and misunderstand her because they judge her by aesthetic standards to which she not only did not not conform but actively despised. her genius was to take Socialist Realism and turn it on its head so as to serve a radical capitalism alien to the comprehension of most of her critics. Even so, her books are genuinely massive and admirable achievments, not least in their cogent explanation of the nature and mechanisms of the decay of modern Western civilization. She is vastly more interesting and relevant than Nabokov, Faulkner, Beckett, all of whom can produce more melodic sentences and more sociopathic characters. But there's more to art than just that.

It was a bit of a rush job. Rand had to resort to benzedrine to get it finished.
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