Mike Hardy

Ellen, I have no doubt at all that if Roland were here, we would be told that your first sentence above are exactly his own sediments.

Well, if it isn't... How did you find us, Mike? Through the scurrilous mentions on other lists? L. N. S. ___ Satan, the Archangel Gabriel, and the ghost of Ayn Rand appeared to me and informed me. (Maybe it was mentioned elsewhere on the web, too.) Ellen, I had the impression that you and Roland Pericles had gone off to the remoter parts of the Himalayas together to hunt for the Abominable Strawman. What else could explain the recent siilence of that grate philosopher and alumnus of the Navel Academy, and your own silence over on ATL2? (Or does Roland's silence explain yours?) What can Jeff Riggenbach do for a living it he's not doing Roland's spelll-checking? I was hoping Roland woud explain to us why Franklin Roosevelt wanted a nude eel. Or his view on Ayn Rand's article titled "Tomb It May Concern". Or any of his other profound incites.

I'm going to dig it out and look at it again. When I read it, my reaction was merely that it wasn't telling the story--too many big fat unanswered questions. I was surprised when I found out some people didn't react that way. One person became quite angry at me when I said that was my reaction. I first heard of "the Affair" in the winter of 1977 from an alumnus of Vassar College, who had heard of it from a philosophy professor there named David Kelley. At that time it had never been publicly discussed by any of the people involved beyond "To Whom It May Concern" and the Brandens' replies -- none of which I'd read yet. What I heard from the Vassar College alumnus was that Frank O'Connor and Barbara Branden had consented to the affair. How did David Kelley know? It must have circulated among Ayn Rand's acquaintances then, while she was still alive. -- Mike Hardy PS: I see that the "preview" feature on this site does not work.

Hello. I'm new here, but several of you have seen me before. I tried to upload my infamous August 1999 drivers license photo, but it seems it's too big. It's that the following URL: http://www.math.umn.edu/~hardy/hardy.jpg