Robin Clevenger

> From: "24hrmom" <24hrmom@...>
> I don't know if you recall, but there is a brief passage in Altas Shrugged
about a homschooling mother with two young sons - she has chosen raising a
family as her "career":
>
> "They did not have the look she had seen in the children of the outer
world - a look of fear, half-secretive, half-sneering, the look of a child's
defense against an adult, the look of a being in the process of discovering
that he is hearing lies and of learning to feel hatred. The two boys had the
open, joyous, friendly confidence of kittens who do not expect to get hurt,
they had an innocently natural, non-boastful sense of their own value and as
innocent a trust in any stranger's ability to recognize it, they had the
eager curiousity that would venture anywhere with the certainty that life
held nothing unworthy of or closed to discovery, and they looked as if,
should they encounter malevolence, they would reject it contemptuously, not
as dangerous, but as stupid, they would not accept it in bruised resignation
as the law of existence." >>>

Thanks for posting this. I remember seeing Ayn Rand on the Donohue show when
I was a young teenager and she made a huge impression on me - not
necessarily positive or negative, but I remember thinking that she was
utterly unlike any human that I knew. So I read this book sometime right
after that, and I also have a vague recollection of this section of the
book. I didn't feel the book was terribly depressing either, I think it
gave voice to some things I was mulling over at that moment in my life.

Thanks again for sharing.

Blue Skies!
-Robin-
Mom to Mackenzie (8/28/96) My underwater swimming dolphin
and Asa (10/5/99) The girl who makes everyone laugh
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