Jamie Clay

I vehemently second Roger's position; these courses should be available in written form. I've yet to hear them. I tried borrowing the tapes once from a friend and listening to them in the car, but road noise kept me from hearing them properly, and I gave up. When I'm not in the car, I simply don't have the patience to listen to material when I can read about 20 times faster than I can listen. So I keep waiting and waiting for them to be made available. I even considered hiring a secretary to transcribe them for me....

Judith

It is kind of surprising they haven't been transcribed, that said it's fascinating to listen to Mr. Branden speak. I listen in my morning work out. He's got such an unusual accent, must be that Canadian heritage, eh?

The changes I mentioned in my previous posts are the only ones I know of. I think Branden took some material out when it appeared in the Objectivist. The copyright date is the key piece of information. I think it is worth emphisizing that Miss Rand approved of all the content in the lectures.

What I meant by change was, other than the speaker what might be the differences between the original lecture and the subsequent ones? I don't expect you to know, I just find it interesting to ponder at this point.

In listening to these again (after almost 40 years) I'm impressed at how well the lectures hold up. It's been wonderfully nostalgic and stimulating, like visiting an old neighborhood of my childhood were many fond meomories were formed.

In discussing the Basic course it should be emphasised that the one being sold is an earlier version. In 1966 the course I heard had the following lecture on God was given by Peikoff. Lecture 17 on Art was giving by Ayn Rand. Lecture 18 on visual arts was given by Mary Ann Sures. The material on the recording for lecture 17 & 18 was used in Who is Ayn Rand. If you look at Objectivist Newsletter there are sometimes that there is new material being offered.

So if I understand you correctly, sometime after 1966 the LP set and subsequent CD library offered by the Objectivism Store is not the same as the original set sold in 1960? (the copyrigt date on the collection I have)

I wonder how much it changed that they felt the need to update it?

BTW (and I hope it's appropriate to mention this here) I am auctioning off my father's LP collection of these lectures (and a number of the post 1968 seminars on psychology). Search on eBay, if you're interested.

I've listened to and grew up on these teachings and found it wonderful to see the CDs published - frankly I think the importance of them is so great that they should be offered as podcasts either free or for a minimal cost but that's just me wanting to spread the word.

Anyway - if this is an improper venue for this please feel free to remove this message.

Thanks,

Jamie