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nonrecursive on Sept 1, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: What are you reading?

What's interesting is that Ayn Rand thought Victor Hugo was the best novelist ever. She also thought that the philosophy in Les Miserables was at odds with his "sense of life".

philwelch on Sept 2, 2009 [–]

She also thought that Frank Lloyd Wright's philosophical and political ideas were at odds with his architecture.

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