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Cerf:

She's like any movie queen who will have a retinue or a prize fight champion who's followed by a bunch of hangers-on or a big crooner and his brown-nosers. They come to need this purposeful adulation.

Q:

But you would think that she'd be bright enough not to do that.

Cerf:

This she is not. These people tell her that she's a genius and agree with everything that she says and she grows more and more opinionated as she goes along. You can't argue with Ayn Rand. She's so clever at arguing that she makes a fool out of you. Any time that I start arguing with her, she'll trick me into making some crazy statement and then nail me.

Now Ayn, for some reason or another, liked me. She told me that one of the characters she put into Atlas Shrugged near the end of the book was inspired by me. She was determined she was going to save me, as she called it. She said that I was a very nice person and had a very good brain but was wasting it all by the worthless causes I believed in. She was trying to convert me to her way of thinking. She didn't have a prayer, of course, but I did like to hear her expound her cockeyed philosophy.

Q:

Did you publish her subsequent books?





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