Yup. I, too, place my high school/college-era interest in Rand's
stuff squarely on Peart's shoulders. She doesn't cast nearly as long a
shadow on me at 35 as she did when I was 22, but the influence still pops
up here and there. It'd be interesting to figure out what percentage of
younger fans (say, under 40) of her stuff would have ever heard of her if
it hadn't been for "2112."
An interesting sidenote-I've been thinking about Rand's Anthem for weeks
now because my daughter is constantly watching the computer animated
movie Antz. Has anyone else seen this? It parallels Anthem pretty
closely. The rebel protagonist leaves the collective society with female
ant on journey of discovery (complete with towering monolithic
structures--in this case garbage cans). Unlike Anthem though, in the end
the "colony" is deemed by the protagonist as good. Gotta give those kids
the right message you know.
Say, maybe when these kids are older Antz will lead them to 2112!
snicker
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weekend. They still rawk,
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