Ayn Rand: Gotta love her...

...or else.

When Rand sensed that her lover’s attention’s might be directed elsewhere, she responded by writing a flurry of “papers” analyzing his psychology in Objectivist terms. Branden, always the good disciple, responded with equally solemn “papers” that were equally beside the point – until he finally delivered one that attempted to explain, in “rational” terms, why he was no longer sexually attracted to a sixty-one-year-old woman.

To Rand, for whom sexual love was a direct result of intellectual respect, this was heresy. “If you have an ounce of morality left in you, an ounce of psychological health – you’ll be impotent for the next twenty years!” she screamed at her former lover, in front of his wife, her husband, and Allan Blumenthal, a psychiatrist who had been asked to come down to mediate the situation. “And if you achieve any potency, you’ll know it’s a sign of still worse moral degradation!”

I bet that was a philsophical epiphany.

Amy Benfer has the story, but Google -coporate master of blogspot- has introduced mandatory new ways of doing things on blogspot, and I have to figure out how to hide the following and incorporate stuff into text all over again. Thanks guys. You did say it was wonderful. I accept that as corporate speak for We are about to do unspeakable things to you, and your little dog, too.

Link here? WHo knows? Try it, anyway.