QueeneMUSE gave the following riposte:
> In a message dated 5/28/2000 6:52:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> daniel.fabulich@yale.edu writes:
>
> > A consistent egoist can still love others; you may notice that many
> > characters in Rand's books fall in love, even risk their own lives to
> > save others.
> >
>
> a shallow sort of love, based on rhetoric and idealism
That's easy for you to say (as they say). I suppose the difference
between real love and the love depicted in, say, Atlas Shrugged is...
is... what?
Surely not simply failing to share your philosophical views? That
seems excessively bitter.
The feeling is there. At a minimum, the altruism is there (in the
normal sense of the term, not Ayn Rand's contrived version). How
could you tell the difference between these characters and characters
who loved each other fully?
-Dan
-unless you love someone-
-nothing else makes any sense-
e.e. cummings
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