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tone of voice implied that deep down, he wasn’t so much posing the question of who the hell Ayn Rand was, as if everyone knew the answer to that, but rather the question of what sort of “political animal” she was in the end. He had, you see, thanks to the free internet access the bookshop provided, managed to google her in the meantime. The entry about her on Wikipedia listed her as a Russian-Jewish born American writer and philosopher of the previous century, a libertarian but not a libertine, while simultaneously an extreme conservative even though, albeit a fanatical anti-com-

Make it three, it’s more than enough, other-wise he’d miss the boat.

Check the page, because you’ve only watched the film.

The phrase “and what sort of beasts were her followers?” would be a perfect fit here, but I can’t afford to add it, can I?

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munist, an atheist, anything but an anarchist however, simply a minarchist, a lover, in other words, of the minimal state, and consequently – though a defender of rule of law (such as to allow nevertheless for an unaltruistic laissez-faire based on rational selfishness, forming a state within a state, radical capitalism) – an enemy of every Welfare state. Having common sense as a principle above all else, she was, higgledy-pig-gledy, in favour of abortions but against homosexu-ality, the US involvement in Vietnam and World War II, while at the same time publicly in support of Israel and radically against the Arabs in the conflict between the two, yet she had not even an ounce of sympathy for the Native Indians and the poor, but a massive amount both for the colonists who took the former’s land and for the wealthy, victims of exploitation of the latter, something that possibly forced Chomsky to describe her as “one of the most diabolical figures of American intelligentsia”, and the liberal economist Fon Mizes as “the bravest man in the country’s history”, while Ronald Reagan swore by her. Man, Babis thought to himself, now we’ve hit the jackpot…

The intimidating “Pardon?” that he first received from Lola, even though elementary, was one of those sce-narios, and he had contrived a lot of them, that he had

+ to which however she will be forced to appeal to under a pseudonym in her old age.

+ who, even though an anti-racist, she considered to be barbaric

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neither predicted nor anticipated, or even prejudged. A “Pardon?” that, even though didn’t enlighten him at all whether and to

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