{"id":1243,"date":"2023-09-19T10:29:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T10:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/09\/19\/ayn-rand-on-c-s-lewis-flannery-oconnor-on-ayn-rand\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T10:29:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T10:29:30","slug":"ayn-rand-on-c-s-lewis-flannery-oconnor-on-ayn-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/09\/19\/ayn-rand-on-c-s-lewis-flannery-oconnor-on-ayn-rand\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayn Rand on C. S. Lewis; Flannery O’Connor on Ayn Rand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/span><\/a>, via Victor Reppert, who cleverly speaks of Rand's  "Jack-hammering":<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ayn Rand was no fan of C.S. Lewis. She called the famous apologist an \u201cabysmal bastard,\u201d a \u201cmonstrosity,\u201d a \u201ccheap, awful, miserable, touchy, social-meta\u00adphysical mediocrity,\u201d a \u201cpickpocket of concepts,\u201d and a \u201cGod-damn, beaten mystic.\u201d (I suspect Lewis would have particularly relished the last of these.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My posts on Miss Rand are collected here<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is Flannery O'Connor on Ayn Rand:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I hope you don\u2019t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Miss O'Connor is exaggerating, but she is essentially correct in her literary judgment. Both women are firm adherents of worldviews that inform their novels, and in the case of O'Connor, short stories.  <\/span><\/p>\n

The difference is that . . . well, you tell me what the difference is. Why do I have to do all the work?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here, via Victor Reppert, who cleverly speaks of Rand's  "Jack-hammering": Ayn Rand was no fan of C.S. Lewis. She called the famous apologist an \u201cabysmal bastard,\u201d a \u201cmonstrosity,\u201d a \u201ccheap, awful, miserable, touchy, social-meta\u00adphysical mediocrity,\u201d a \u201cpickpocket of concepts,\u201d and a \u201cGod-damn, beaten mystic.\u201d (I suspect Lewis would have particularly relished the last of these.) … Continue reading “Ayn Rand on C. S. Lewis; Flannery O’Connor on Ayn Rand”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,40,296,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lewis-c-s","category-literary-matters","category-literary-pathography","category-rand-ayn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}