#the fountainhead

[celestial-sylph]

I'm reading through Ayn Rand's works (finished anthem, 50 pages from finishing fountainhead) and I know ive been infested with tumblr brain rats because i just keep seeing Peter Keating and Gail Wynand speak to Howard Roark or describe him to someone else and im just like

man they deserve to live their gay little truths

rip ayn rand characters you wouldve loved 2015 and a different author

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The Fountainhead (1949) dir. King Vidor

[mi-evacy]

[recycledmoviecostumes]

This dress is an example of the same actress wearing the same costume twice. The reuse does seem to be intentional.

Patricia Neal wore this black gown trimmed with white fur in the 1949 film adaptation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. The same year, she wore the dress in It’s a Great Feeling, which takes place in a movie studio. Neal, along with several other actors played themselves in the film, and the reuse of her costume indicates that in the world of It’s a Great Feeling, Neal was filming The Fountainhead.

Costume Credit: Jim Bastas, Solidmoonlight

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[hystpod]

We talked about King Vidor's demented adaptation of one of the most perniciously awful books ever written, Ayn Rand's THE FOUNTAINHEAD. The author demanded, and got, total creative control over the screenplay, and thus her Objectivist vision made it to the screen intact. It is exactly as revolting as the source novel. Hear us talk about how libertarians have baby brains over at our Patreon— the episode is free!

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[the-portrait-of-seraph]

August’s Review...

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Hey everyone, sorry for not be active as per usual ehe. I’ve been juggling junior year for only a few weeks now and I absolutely can’t stand it haha

The Fountainhead: Rand, Ayn

I liked the book, but didn't like the person behind it. Now, I don't hate a lot of authors in particular, but Ayn Rand was just so wrong on so many levels? She was extremely critical of any philosophy that collided with her's/just didn't like, and that's not exactly the best approach for a scholar to have-

You have the non-conforming architect Howard Roark and he's up against the entire world and their idea of the standard/ideal building; it's drama-filled with Roark fighting tooth and nail against his enemies and his lover/future wife, Dominique.

About Dominique, she reminds me a lot of Nastasya Fillipovna from The Idiot. She can be so loving, but so manipulative and drive dozens of men to their demise (and we love her for that). I felt like she was more of a plot device than an actual three-dimensional character, which makes me very sad. I did feel that her marriage to Roark in the ending was a little disappointing, because I felt like it was expected to happen.

If I had to choose who was my "favorite", I think I would say it was Roark, only because his problems were so similar to mine, other than that, most of the characters didn't stand out to me that much. If you want drama and struggle, I would recommend it.

I did like Rand's writing style though, everything else was debatable.

Love in the Time of Cholera: Marquez Garcia, Gabriel

One of my new personal faves! I love Fermina and she did not deserve her in-laws. I feel like it was surprisingly realistic as to how it portrayed married life between Urbino and Fermina, with happy and unhappy years, but I believe that Fermina was definitely a prisoner in a house that her husband was not. I don't know about everyone else, but one of my worst fears was marrying into the wrong household (if you know, you know) and here I was, watching Fermina live my worst nightmare.

Florentino and Urbino… Are not exactly the greatest characters haha. Florentino had had countless affairs over the years but never told Fermina about them and practically said that despite all these affairs, his heart had belonged to Fermina Daza (someone died because of him!!!!) Urbino also admitted to having an affair with a woman (and even let her death haunt him???), but he was a nice husband, like all the rest.

I found Urbino's death be ironic because it wasn't the cholera he faced on a daily basis that killed him, but falling from a ladder, but at least it allowed for plot development; it had let Florentino finally make his appearance in over 50 years, coming to declare his love for Fermina once more.

It's a love story, but it's also a documentation on the realities of human life/marriage in a matter that doesn't shy away from all the nitty-gritty, unpretty details that follow along with life.

Three Short Japanese Short Stories

If you've been here with me for sometime, you know that I love, love, LOVE Japanese literature. I love Mishima, Dazai, Kawabata, and a truckton of others haha. So the book itself is super thin and tiny, so it's great if you don't know where to start with Japanese literature. You'll get three stories from Nagai, , and Akutagawa, all unique in their own way, and so you get a wholesome mix of everything, from an epistolary story to a history lesson!

The stories themselves are super simple, so I won't go into too much detail about them.

The Book of Disquiet: Pessoa, Fernando

Amazing, show-stopping, 10/10 would recommend

This book is for all of you No Longer Human fans out there, it’s a diary-like novel about a book keeper and his view on life, and surprising it is very, very real. I don’t want to give away most of the story, but I can just say that Fernando Pessoa is a genius, there are so many hard hitting quotes in the book that really get you thinking. I was hooked from the first line, if you want to read it, check this out here!

It is so well pieced together for a novel that is meant to be in disarray and Pessoa is an amazing writer, I would love to read more of his works.

The Plague: Camus Albert

A deadly plague, a town of people, who will win?

Turns out, nobody and everybody. The ending was a bit of a flat-line for me, but other than that, the story of the plague in Oran is neatly put together mixed in with Camus’ philosophy. I’m still not over Dr. Rieux’s wife dying, I don’t know why but that really got to me.

I don’t really like Camus, but I’m trying my best to like him

[justafewberries]

wondering abt if snow’s motivation in tbosas and afterwards derives from maintaining and crafting a personal image or if it’s a mixture of genuinely trying to repair the capitol to what it once was. I wonder if he ever truly cares about the welfare of the capitol citizens, or if he just cares about his reputation as a leader more than he cares abt the people he’s over.

Does he see the capitol as a direct mirror, where the better it looks, the better he does, or as an aggrandizing projection of his image? Does he care about the people, or does he always just care about the reputation of the snow name?

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Howard Roark The Fountainhead concept sketches

[wordwhile]

. . . the simplicity of being at ease, here, like this, making the hours more sensual than the moments they delayed.

— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

[angel-r]

When english is not your first language then you need to keep a dictionary with you all the time 😂📖

[another-little-hippie]

totally out of pocket for my blog, but is The Fountainhead by our girl Ayn really fucking queer coded, or is it just me?

[litandlifequotes]

You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. 

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

[turbulent-talkbox]

You understand

March 19, 2024

Sourced from page 521 of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.

Text under the cut

"... I want you. You understand."

"I do."

Hand lying, the long fingers folded carelessly. He looked - thought, 'how beautiful'.

"Now you know what I want. I want... Oh, forgive me. Too much."

Hand moved. He took the fingers - the skin had grooves.

"You'll have myself. If you wish"

"You want me? I have no idea how"

"I can answer nothing to you. I never make any conditions. But I know I want this."

"Will you promise?"

"I promise."

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