My Own English Channel
Posted in Academic Pursuits and tagged with Holidays, Jesus Christ, Reading on March 17, 2009Welcome to the Ignorant Historian! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
I’m not wearing any green. It’s not that I really get into St. Patrick’s Day, but I don’t like to be unnecessarily pinched. Or pinched at all, rather.
I feel like I climbed Mount Everest or swam the English Channel (only one of those sounds remotely appealing to me, and I’m not that strong of a swimmer…yet)…last night I finally finished reading Atlas Shrugged in all its 1100 pages of small font. It’s taken me months (okay, about a month and a half, when you factor in that I took a break from it for about a month) and I really enjoyed it, but I’ll be glad to move on to something else.
Ayn Rand is a great author and has some good points, but ultimately, I don’t buy her philosophy. A simple explaination of it can be found in the motto of her heroes, “I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
If you know me, you know that I have essentially sworn to live my life for another man, THE God-Man, Jesus Christ.
March 17th, 2009 at 10:30 am
*pinch*
March 17th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I have a copy. I should read it. At that length, it really seems like more work than anything else.
Congrats on managing it!
March 17th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I’m impressed. I takes me a month to get through a Jodi Picoult book and I really love her writing, one that I’m not into would probably take a year for me.
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March 17th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Thanks for reading the book for me :)
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March 17th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Come on, girl…we both know that you are a view-nature-from-a-distance kind of gal…you’d never climb Mt. Everest. :)
March 17th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
1100 pages? That is a feat unto itself. Congrats for that! I’m reading The Bell Jar right now….fascinating to me.
March 17th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Yeah, Everest would only be fun if done on a Rollercoaster at Disney.
I love how you summed this post up. Excellent!
March 17th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Amazing that you finished the book…even though you were not that into it. Well done! Much more than I could have done.
-Francesca
March 17th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
You know, if you didn’t wear green, wouldn’t you get unnecessarily pinched MORE?
March 18th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I love to study history and to read historical novels. :0)