Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [279]
became her trademark in the 1940s: TPOAR, p. 137.
musing about its theme since her late teens: BBTBI.
made her first extensive notes about it in December 1935: December 4, 1935 (JOAR, p. 82).
life on earth: BBTBI.
now she was ready: BBTBI.
earned the right: BBTBI.
the first notes of marital discord: Based on taped interview with MS, conducted by BB, January 20, 1983.
far from sexually dominant, or even highly sexed: Author interviews with Thaddeus Ashby, RBH, and BB. Thaddeus Ashby, interviewed on June 19, 2005, called O’Connor “undersexed.”
didn’t fit her romantic image of him: BBTBI.
decorated their apartments inexpensively: Taped interview with MS, conducted by BB, January 20, 1983.
take over many household chores: TPOAR, pp. 94, 137.
“Mr. Ayn Rand”: TPOAR, p. 136.
“there would not have been so much hurt pride”: Taped interview with MS, conducted by BB, January 20, 1983.
did not complain: TPOAR, p. 148. On the other hand, in an interview with Mike Wallace in 1959, she seemed embarrassed to admit that she supported him.
withdrew from conversation: TPOAR, p. 135.
brimming with new ideas: March 13, 1936 to August 15, 1938 (JOAR, pp. 117–64).
dinner almost every night: TPOAR, p. 121.
charming, funny, well read, intelligent: Interview with MW, June 21, 2004.
collected disability payments: Letter to Nick Carter, October 5, 1944 (LOAR, p. 164). “Nick wanted to [write] but didn’t have the drive to succeed,” Millicent Patton recalled in 1982. “He was trying to write books but ended up writing a few articles” (taped interviewwith Millicent Patton, conductedby BB, December 5, 1982).
“He was Noel Coward”: Taped interview with MS, conducted by BB, February 18, 1983.
“peasant” face and figure: Taped interview with Millicent Patton, conducted by BB, December 5, 1982.
“My father was appalled”: Taped interview with MS, conducted by BB, February 18, 1983.
“a small white Dutch hat”: TPOAR, p. 137.
He was a homosexual: Author interview with MW, June 21, 2004.
“She would have been the last person on earth”: Author interview with JMB and Dr. Allan Blumenthal, June 21, 2004, quoting BB.
whom Rand had met at the Studio Club: Marjorie Booth Hiss was married to Philip Hiss, Alger’s cousin (author interview with Alger’s son Tony Hiss, February 21, 2008); AR met her in the Studio Club (BB interview with MS).
called him Cubbyhole: Letters to FO (“Cubby”), August 19 and August 21, 1936. In a taped interview from 1983, MS recalled having been told by Ayn that the nickname Cubbyhole came from a joke Nick told, which included the line, “Papa bear couldn’t find the cubbyhole” (LOAR, pp. 36–38).
called her Fluff: TPOAR, p. 185.
poring over architectural texts: EOTF, p. 38.
turn We the Living into a stage play: Letters to FO, August 19, 1936, and to Hollywood friend Gladys Unger, July 6, 1937 (LOAR, pp. 36, 41); retitled The Unconquered, the play version of V/TL ran for five nights and closed on February 17, 1940 (IBDB.com).
At Ann Watkins’s urging: TPOAR, p. 148.
rewrote a novella she had completed: Three Plays, p. 193. In his preface, LP seems to have misstated the date of composition of AR’s final play, Think Twice. AR’s correspondence suggests she wrote it in 1941, not 1939.
Called Ideal: Published in play form in 1983 and again in 2005 by Signet.
Greta Garbo—like movie star: Kay Gonda says to her ideal fan, the drifter Johnnie Dawes, “There was a great man once who said, ‘I love those who know not how to live today’ “(Three Plays, p. 178). The quote from Thus Spoke Zarathustra is: “I love those that know not how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over. I love the great despisers, because they are the great reverers and arrows of longing for the other shore” (Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Walter Kaufmann, trans. [New York: Penguin, 1978]).
“a string trembling to a note of ecstasy no man had ever heard”: Three Plays, p. 170.
first glimpse of Howard Roark: An observation neatly made by