David Kelley Interview on PAR

[Neil Parille]

This is a recent interview with David Kelley.  He talks about his break with Leonard and The Passion of Ayn Rand during the first 8 minutes or so.

I don't know, or had forgotten, that he read a Kipling poem during a small memorial for Frank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VZAz5gYRbU

 

[Brant Gaede]

7 hours ago, Neil Parille said:

This is a recent interview with David Kelley.  He talks about his break with Leonard and The Passion of Ayn Rand during the first 8 minutes or so.

I don't know, or had forgotten, that he read a Kipling poem during a small memorial for Frank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VZAz5gYRbU

 

He read the poem at the burial. If there was a subsequent reading I don't know know of it.

"If"

--Brant

I was there

[Neil Parille]

According to Kelley, he read "When Earth's Last Picture is Painted" at a memorial for Frank and "If" at Rand's funeral.

[Neil Parille]

He says that he was on the board of a small Objectivist publication and Bob Bidinotto published a positive review of The Passion of Ayn Rand.  He said he knew that was the end of it with LP.  He asked Peikoff if he thought that Barbara was making up the idea of an affait and LP said it was possible and that the claim was "an arbitrary assertion."  Kelley says he knew of the affair in the 70s.

[Starbuckle]

The "small Objectivist publication" was the newsletter On Principle.