re: #117 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

The Fountainhead is a much ‘better’ book, to me, it’s at least interesting and the brilliant hero spends a lot of time broke as fuck.

However, it also contains a lengthy ‘rape’ scene (the woman is portrayed as nonconsenting but loving it) during which the man describes the property of various rocks at length. Yes. That happens.

The main character is also a terrorist who dynamites a building because his penis hurt. He basically paints himself into a corner and then blames others for the predicament, if he’d wanted control over the project he should have put his name on it and entered into a legally enforceable contract. Instead he specifically didn’t want to be associated with it, so of course he blows it up when the design is changed.

Howard Roark is a schizo-affective douchebag. How anybody can view his brand of passive aggressive pudwackery as heroic is truly mind boggling.