and/or on drugs.
Wrong!
I have to say, being a fan of the Fountainhead movie, I watched this video a few years ago. I drew similar conclusions.
I've not seen the film but I read the book about a year ago. The characters are ridiculously wooden and strange, but I kind of went along with it and enjoyed it up until about a quarter of the way in. Then things started to speed up rapidly and become absurd. Half way in it just gets crazier. Once I finished the (very long, too long) book I did a bit of research and read that Ayn was a big amphetamine user, but took even more of it as she was working her way though the book, reaching a crescendo to get it finished. Aha! I've just read the work of a speed freak! Then it all kind of made sense to me. Taking massive amounts of speed actually sends you completely bonkers! Which she clearly was. It was still strangely interesting though - the first quarter of it anyway.
Interesting; I did think she was either on some kind of medication or would benefit from some. Nevertheless, an interesting person. You keep good artistic company!
Hilarious. And I’d probably find it even funnier if I knew or cared what Quietus was/is.
She claimed that man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress but I claim it is anxiety or that anxiety is the fuel for man's ego. Every living human being wakes up in the morning feeling anxiety without ever understanding why that is. Ingmar Bergman discussed this with his close friends who continued to talk about it after his death, many of them actors he worked with.
