HBAS

Yes, I'm joining the great Happy Birthday Atlas Shrugged Chorus.

I had read a couple of Rand's novels before Atlas. I had been very taken with the stories, but I had thought her deeply mistaken in her philosophical presuppositions. Somehow, with Atlas, she finally convinced me that her industrialized Aristotelianism just might work.

I'd sing Happy Birthday, but it's clear:
A book can speak, but cannot hear.