Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [300]
things as they might be and ought to be: Again, AR may have picked up Aristotle’s dictum about the difference between history and literature from Albert Jay Nock, who quoted it, both in English and in Greek, in Memoirs of a Superfluous Man. Memoirs appeared in 1943, alongside TF; AR owned a copy of the book and annotated it with margin notes (The Library of Ayn Rand, p. 39). Her first published reference to things as they “might be and ought to be” appeared in 1945, in “To the Readers of The Fountainhead,” LOAR, p. 670.
she was the only Jewish child: Karen Reedstrom, “An Interview with Barbara Branden,” Full Context, October 1992, p. 1.
She liked him and admired him: Author interview with BB, December 16, 2005.
continued to want more: JD, pp. 30–39.
“Ayn Rand is fascinating”: TPOAR, p. 233.
feel appreciated, understood: JD, p. 46.
Rand had given every appearance of liking him, too: JD, p. 45.
phoned on Sunday evening: WIAR, p. 221.
“seemed to be staring right down to the bottom of your soul”: BB to Ron Grossman, “Passions: A Disciple Confronts Ayn Rand’s Power,” Chicago Tribune, September 9, 1986, p. 1.
“It’s a wonderful fiction event!”: TPOAR, p. 235.
“ideas matter”: TPOAR, p. 236.
astounded by her energy: BB, radio interview with Don Swaim, WOUB (Ohio University) online, June 27, 1986.
conversation could go on for hours: “The Curious Cult of Ayn Rand,” p. 101; “The Benefits and Hazards.”
“You will”: JD, p. 60.
worked for days and sometimes weeks: BBTBI.
looking after the alfalfa: 100 Voices, RBH, p. 126.
“Not the sort of thing Howard Roark would do!”: Author interview with RBH, June 2, 2005.
Rand never met Aretha: Interview with RBH, June 8, 2005.
her “kind of face”: BBTBI.
possessed the best mind: JD, p. 62.
“and I really mean genius”: BBTBI.
finally found one: BBTBI, reprinted on Objectivistliving.com.
as “the children”: Lewis Nichols, “In and Out of Books: Class of ‘43,” NYT, December 22, 1957, p. 136.
didn’t mean anything parental by it: JD, p. 57.
“relatives through choice, not blood”: Author interview with RBH, June 2, 2005.
“Certainly not”: JD, p. 64.
shared her view of families: JD, p. 55.
like one of his mother’s cousins: JD, p. 82.
warning “the children”: TPOAR, p. 241.
“One could not encounter a human being”: TPOAR, p. 235.
“She had a Sherlock Holmes ability”: Author interview with NB, December 11, 2008.
“everything is something”: AS, p. 136.
defined as “the faculty that identifies and integrates”: “The Objectivist Ethics,” VOS, p. 20.
both lacked respect for the human will: Letter to Stanley Greben, October 15, 1950 (LOAR, p. 482).
“Emotions are not tools of cognition”: FTNI, p. 17.
“the head has its reasons”: AR was reformulating JH’s reformulation of Pascal, who wrote in Les Pensées, “The heart has its reasons that reason does not understand” (letter to JH, January 3, 1961 [LOAR, p. 526]).
claimed that she could account rationally: TPOAR, p. 194.
Branden talked of more personal matters: JD, p. 70.
bet he wouldn’t even notice: Author interview with NB, December 11, 2008.
If she could make his life’s path any easier: Nathaniel Branden, My Years with Ayn Rand (Hoboken, N.J.: Jossey-Bass, 1990), p. 67.
could see that Barbara was very intelligent: BBTBI.
some kind of mind-body split: MYWAR, p. 29. Years later, in a private journal, AR suggested that it was NB who had the mind-body split. “‘I felt, give me the intellect and sex,’” AR quoted NB as having said to her, “‘and to hell with emotions, leave them to others!’ Through all the years this seems to have been his attitude, which never changed,” AR wrote. “Yet emotions are the form in which one experiences one’s values” (TPOARC, RPJ, July 4, 1968, p. 320).
sorting them helped her organize: Author correspondence with RBH, August 21, 2005.
a girl as bright as Barbara: MYWAR, p. 59.
wasn’t madly, passionately, sexually in love: TPOAR, p. 238.
“Love is our response”: AS, p. 454.
Rand’s doctrine of man worship: Author correspondence with BB, June 23, 2008.