Best April 1 story of the year

April 2, 2010 @ 12:24 pm · Filed by under Rhetoric

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L. Ron Creepweans, "Doctorow and Stross to Write Authorized Sequel to Atlas Shrugged", Locus 4/1/2010.

April 2, 2010 @ 12:24 pm · Filed by under Rhetoric


4 Comments

  1. Forrest said,

    April 2, 2010 @ 3:07 pm

    Seems a little over the top with the utopia they've formed in opposition to pretty much everything Rand believed in. Still, it's better than the other April Fool's Day pranks I've seen. ( I didn't participate this year, too busy with other things, but I plan a belated celebration… )

    They did a feature on Ayn Rand a few weeks ago on KUOW. Too bad this hadn't been published yet!

  2. Áine ní Dhonnchadha said,

    April 2, 2010 @ 4:04 pm

    As a long-time Stross and Doctorow (& bOING-bOING) fan, I found that the funniest April fish I read all day.

    Although I did appreciate the very dry humor of Eisenbraun's Publishing, thoughtfully retained here: https://www.eisenbrauns.com/ECOM/_2WI0YDVEM.HTM .

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    April 2, 2010 @ 4:49 pm

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  4. Zwicky Arnold said,

    April 2, 2010 @ 11:25 pm

    I am reminded of Paul Jennings's "Report on Resistentialism" (in Dwight Macdonald's Parodies volume of 1960, pp. 394-404). Resistentialism is the philosophy espoused by Pierre-Marie Ventre, under the slogan "Les choses sont contre nous".

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