The Early Ayn Rand: a selection of her childhood writings.

[TalkingDog]

[DirkGently]

1. Excellent. n/t

[riqster]

2. Fecking brilliant.

[rurallib]

3. there were early warnings

[yurbud]

4. "I so admired the boy next door who pulled the wings off flies. He was truly the master of his own

destiny."

[Zambero]

5. "Spanky Shrugged"

And there must be others. It's only a matter of time before Ted Cruz rediscovers this body of work for himself and sets about reciting them aloud cover to cover during his next anti-gov't filibuster marathon. So sorry, Dr. Seuss you're about to be upstaged!

[freshwest]

6. +1

[Berlum]

9. "You rang. Shrug." - Spanky

[yurbud]

7. "Went Galt today when mommy and daddy asked me to "contribute" to the family by setting the table...

"They said if I don't need to contribute to the family, then I don't need their food, shelter, clothing, or bathroom either. I must formulate a response."

[FarCenter]

8. Are these translations from the Russian or Yiddish originals?

Rand was born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum on February 2, 1905, to a Russian Jewish bourgeois[8] family living in Saint Petersburg. She was the eldest of the three daughters of Zinovy Zakharovich Rosenbaum and his wife, Anna Borisovna (née Kaplan), largely non-observant Jews. Zinovy Rosenbaum was a successful pharmacist and businessman, eventually owning a pharmacy and the building in which it was located.[9] With a passion for the liberal arts, Rand found school unchallenging, and said she began writing screenplays at the age of eight and novels at the age of ten.[10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand