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Bri's Room (not done) (Free verse) by Sunshine Conkey

A little girl named Bri had an awful lot of stuff she saved and saved it but it wasn't enough. She put it in a closet and stacked it on the floor But even when her room was filled She wanted more and more. One day while playing She wanted her special pen to draw her favorite doll. But after looking everywhere, she couldn't find them at all.

zodiac 16-Dec-05/3:58 PM
Yes, of course. No one here has suggested Ayn Rand wasn't a good writer, wasn't intelligent, wasn't writing from her perspective or for her time, et cetera, et cetera. No one has even said Ayn Rand was simplistic. If you think anyone has said these things, please, please go back and read our messages.

At the risk of putting this conversation even further off track, I'll tell you what I don't like about Ayn Rand's ideas: Her books often overwhelmingly measure success (in life, as an egoist, etc) by characters' contributions to INDUSTRY only. I'm not ignoring her books' positively portrayed writers, artists, and even regular businesspeople, but I wish they'd gotten more play (not to mention, come off better in the end). Personally, I consider myself living a satisfactorily Randian life under the radar with my wife and my normal job, without having to measure my greatness by the size of my skyscraper.




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