blackhorse Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Curious, what were Ayn Rand's last words before she passed away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Curious, what were Ayn Rand's last words before she passed away?I'm curious why you are curious. Such a person who was a fountainhead of words didn't need any last words--not for the public. In any case, no one has ever reported anything as far as I know and I know quite a lot.Ellen knows a lot more.--Brant"Nathan!"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9thdoctor Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 I thought she quoted Pancho Villa: "Tell them I said something". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhorse Posted July 24, 2012 Author Share Posted July 24, 2012 @ Brant, I agree with you on all your points, but I would still like to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reidy Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 "A complete set of high-quality tapes of all NBI's lectures, both as originally delivered and as revised by the lecturers, is hidden at..." Then she died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Biggers Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 People often believe that somehow, a person;s last dying words will be the summa of his/her life. However, this is rarely the case. Life doesn't always mimic fiction, much less the movies. Many of the dying (in hospitals, for example) from a terminal disease do not know exactly when they will be checking-out. Quite often, they are on heavy doses of narcotic painkillers (as well they should be) and are unable to issue the proverbial last words of wisdom.if they even had ever planned to.Interest in this "last words of the dying" have been quite strong among advocates for any religion that has expressed its belief in an afterlife, and assigned eternal torment in hell for the infidels. Some evangelical types, and like-minded people. have relished at the thought of dying skeptics, renouncing their doubts and begging for mercy in the afterlife, Some religionists have been so excited by this scenario that they started propagating stories (without foundation) of deathbed conversions of Thomas Paine, Robert G. Ingersoll, and (more recently) Christopher Hitchens.Hitchens, for his part, addressed this issue in several TV interviews (Charlie Rose) in the months before his demise from terminal cancer. His comments on this issue and just what such a deathbed conversion would mean, are well worth reading.As for Rand, secondhand (and thirdhand) accounts of her last moments are given in several of the biographies. Nothing of great philosophic note was reported by those attending. Most likely, she was heavily sedated and could not have uttered anything meaningful in her last moments.But I like to think that , , if she could, in her last lucid moments, she raised her hand and pointed at a copy of Atlas Shrugged,, smiled affirmatively, and died.All right, too sentimental. I vote for Reidy's find! See post #5, above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 My Mother's last words I know of and I heard and I remember were, "I'm in pain."Then, more morphine.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyau Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 People often believe that somehow, a person's last dying words will be the summa of his/her life. However, this is rarely the case. . . .But I like to think that, if she could, in her last lucid moments, she raised her hand and pointed at a copy of Atlas Shrugged,, smiled affirmatively, and died.. . .Onto Jerry's good fanciful choice for Rand thinking last of her accomplishment Atlas Shrugged, I'll add her summation and call to her reader:In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. . . . / . . . Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth.See also the closing of Ayn Rand in Her Own Words.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A few years ago I was bleeding and in horrible pain. We would learn soon that a blood vessel had burst in my colon, that I had had an ischemic attack or what my doctor called "the heart attack of the colon." We did not know that yet. I had no drugs yet. I was just in horrible pain. I was lying on a gurney being wheeled down a hallway. I had the thought that this might be the end. I thought something like "so that's how far I got---such and such accomplishments." Then I had only the pain and an image. In a surround of darkness there was a well-lit disk, kind of like a round window or a cameo. In that disk were me and Walter. That was all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Stephen, you apparently survived the bursting of an abdominal aneurysm, the most common kind. A friend of mine died of a cerebral event several years ago. We are biologically programmed to have and raise children and survive subsequently on the inertia of the tremendous life force that made that possible. I can see you are making the most of what time you have by your own lights and so should we all.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhorse Posted July 25, 2012 Author Share Posted July 25, 2012 So, the short answer to my query so far is 'no'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 So, the short answer to my query so far is 'no'.No, not "no." It's "We don't know and we don't know anybody who does know."--Brantremember your question; "no" doesn't fit, but my elegant statement above does--damn, I'm good!I know, I know, your "no" does fit between the lines and at a deeper, non-literal level, but I just have to hog in here because of my acute and chronic narcissistic needs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhorse Posted July 25, 2012 Author Share Posted July 25, 2012 M'kay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reidy Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 If her last word had been "no," Blackhorse would have been right in #10. But we have no reason to believe that it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDS Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 If her last word had been "no," Blackhorse would have been right in #10. But we have no reason to believe that it was.Very clever, Mr. Reidy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Opps! Did I misunderstood Blackhorse's "no"?--Branteven great brains like mine can screw up from time to time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhorse Posted July 25, 2012 Author Share Posted July 25, 2012 No Brant. Or 'no', Brant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Let's ride both horses! What the hell!--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dglgmut Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 "Leonard, promise me you won't claim to be my intellectual heir."LP: "Ahhhhh.... I can't do that."AR: "Promise me!"LP: "What do you care? You'll be dead anyway."AR: "Okay, then at least refrain from turning Atlas Shrugged into a movie... if I can't write the screenplay I don't want it made."LP: "I will have to think about that one."Or maybe it was something generic, like, "Call an ambulance." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 How about a new thread: "Ayn Rand's First Words"?--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dglgmut Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 "Me." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 That's only one word.--Brantpay attention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhorse Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 Apparently the last words of Oscar Wilde were, " "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Rosebud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 RosebudTaken.--Branttrying to get some banter traction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 "Stop hovering! I've already said the last word, on everything." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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