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| - The Fountainhead examines the life of an idealistic young architect, Howard Roark, who prefers to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision by pandering to the prevailing taste in building design. The book was rejected by twelve publishers before a young editor at the Bobbs-Merrill Company publishing house wired to the head office, "If this is not the book for you, then I am not the editor for you." Despite generally negative reviews from the contemporary media, the book gained a following by word of mouth and sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The Fountainhead was made into a Hollywood film in 1949, with Gary Cooper in the lead role of Howard Roark, and a screenplay by Rand herself.
- The Fountainhead is a novel written by Ayn Rand, a human from ancient Earth. The book plays into the Nietzschean philosophy, because it is about striving to make one's own way in the world, as well as individualism and trying to achieve one's goals at any cost. Tyr Anasazi was reading the novel on the bridge of the Andromeda Ascendant while sitting in the captain's chair. ("The Banks of the Lethe")
- Howard Roark, The Hero of the story, is an architect whose style tends toward being "modernistic." Problem is, everyone else where he lives likes to recycle old styles, so Howard is more of an acquired taste in the art world, where only a few folks (who become his Nakama, more or less) appreciate him. And so begins architecture as a metaphor for the content of people's selves. Those that build houses for the purposes of showing off and impressing friends do not have any content of their own in their soul; they live second-hand, dependent on other people for their psychological sense of self.
- "The Fountainhead" is essentially Ayn Rand plugging her philosophy, called Objectivism, which was actually ripped off from a Nazi-fucker named Nietzsche, who called his philosophy existentialism. Nietzsche actually didn't invent existentialism, but no one gives a shit about the Danish piece of shit who actually did. Also, Rand distanced herself from Nietzsche and his French followers like Ugly Le Nauseaface and M. Ihavesexwitheverything by not just saying "make yourself happy", but instead "make yourself happy as long as you're raping the planet, smoking cigarettes as an expression of how awesome you are, and fucking everyone who owns a business suit."
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| - Howard Roark, The Hero of the story, is an architect whose style tends toward being "modernistic." Problem is, everyone else where he lives likes to recycle old styles, so Howard is more of an acquired taste in the art world, where only a few folks (who become his Nakama, more or less) appreciate him. The Architectural establishment all damn Roark for being insufficiently humble enough to "realize" that no one will ever approach the glories of the past. No one cares that Roark's buildings are actually pleasant to live in; no, people don't want to live in houses, they want big flashy facades with lavish ballrooms so they can entertain their friends and impress them. And so begins architecture as a metaphor for the content of people's selves. Those that build houses for the purposes of showing off and impressing friends do not have any content of their own in their soul; they live second-hand, dependent on other people for their psychological sense of self. For more information on Objectivist ideas, please see Objectivism
- The Fountainhead examines the life of an idealistic young architect, Howard Roark, who prefers to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision by pandering to the prevailing taste in building design. The book was rejected by twelve publishers before a young editor at the Bobbs-Merrill Company publishing house wired to the head office, "If this is not the book for you, then I am not the editor for you." Despite generally negative reviews from the contemporary media, the book gained a following by word of mouth and sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The Fountainhead was made into a Hollywood film in 1949, with Gary Cooper in the lead role of Howard Roark, and a screenplay by Rand herself.
- The Fountainhead is a novel written by Ayn Rand, a human from ancient Earth. The book plays into the Nietzschean philosophy, because it is about striving to make one's own way in the world, as well as individualism and trying to achieve one's goals at any cost. Tyr Anasazi was reading the novel on the bridge of the Andromeda Ascendant while sitting in the captain's chair. ("The Banks of the Lethe")
- "The Fountainhead" is essentially Ayn Rand plugging her philosophy, called Objectivism, which was actually ripped off from a Nazi-fucker named Nietzsche, who called his philosophy existentialism. Nietzsche actually didn't invent existentialism, but no one gives a shit about the Danish piece of shit who actually did. Also, Rand distanced herself from Nietzsche and his French followers like Ugly Le Nauseaface and M. Ihavesexwitheverything by not just saying "make yourself happy", but instead "make yourself happy as long as you're raping the planet, smoking cigarettes as an expression of how awesome you are, and fucking everyone who owns a business suit." Over the course of the story, this guy named Howard Roark does nothing but piss people off and say "I'm Howard Roark". Oh, and he also builds things, which is supposed to be some sort of metaphor for Rand's philosophy, but unfortunately no one actually gives a fuck, and so Roark winds up on top of this building, and gets pushed off by his wife/rape victim, who is actually Nietzsche in drag. At the end of the story, there is only the sea and the sky and the figure of Howard Roark...falling down a massive New York skyscraper, still continuing some long-winded speech about the power of the individual. Also, Ayn Rand wrote The Producers and included it in the novel, except without all of the singing and dancing and whatnot.
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