InvestorsHub Logo
icon url

greg s

05/30/04 6:53 PM

#251347 RE: simple #251346

When you read Atlas Shrugged in any language, you read from right-to-right <VVBG>
icon url

Zeev Hed

05/30/04 7:02 PM

#251348 RE: simple #251346

Actually, I read it from left to right, but that was due to special circumstances, the four of us had only one book, laying at the center of the table, and my place was such that I had to read the book from the bottom (as seen by me) of the page to the top and from left to right....of course, the letters were inverted as well, but with no vowels to confuse the issues, I could interpret what I read any way I wanted anyhow (g).

PS, that episode, by the way, is true, except the book was not Atlas Shrugged nor Fountainhead, but a tome named "Baba Metsia" (Talmud, the "Middle Gate") shortly after my being "deposited" in an extremely orthodox orphanage, short, nevertheless on holy books. Luckily, I was only starting to get acquainted with Hebrew, so it was quite easy to adopt any viewing angle (g/ng), and the lead reader (the one facing the book correctly) read the passages aloud, and after every sentence, we engaged (well I just tried to listen, at least during the first two weeks) in discussions of the passage and the infinite variations of possible interpretations. Excellent training if you want to engage later in life, in Eliot wave reading of the charts. PS, Tittupping was absolutely forbidden during these sessions.


icon url

federal reserves

05/31/04 2:03 AM

#251373 RE: simple #251346

Atlas Shrugged was a great book

but to really understand today's time read George Orwell and Huxley. Originally, Orwell was a socialist/communist but when he learned the truth, he wrote books to speak out against it in literal terms. Animal farm was such, a great short book against communism compared to Ann Ryand tomes. Many who think the news is spun (on both sides) are wise to realize Orwell was a prophet. 1984 is simply the best book of the 20th century.

I would advise all to read Orwell's book "1984". which he wrote in 1959, it is most relevant to today. On the back of that read "Brave New Word" by Huxley.