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The Husband I Bought - c1926
The Night King - c1926
Good Copy - c1927
Escort - c1929
Her Second Career - c1929
Red Pawn - c1931-32
We the Living - 1930-33 (seeking publisher while writing Ideal)
Night of January 16th (seeking producer while writing Ideal)
But it was well before the mature novels were published.
the '20s forward, here cited in a review on amazon:
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1920s works
(1) The Husband I Bought - first person with a protagonist who is a woman in love
(2) The Night King - first person with a protagonist who is a male thief
(3) Good Copy - action and romance
(4) Escort - very short
(5) Her Second Career - about the difficulty of succeeding in Hollywood
1930s works
(6) Red Pawn - getting more philosophical now; about the stupidity of self-sacrifice
(7) We the Living (deleted sections) - not so great
(8) Ideal - written as a play; excellent, philosophically
(9) Think Twice - written as a play; excellent, philosophically
(10) Fountainhead (deleted sections) - excellent; Roark's old girlfriend Vesta Dunning and their opposing philosophies
1940s work
(11) The Simplest Thing in the World - common human trait of striving to put other people down
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-- j
people say that Rand wrote "The Night of January 16th"
and found that it is said to have been written in '33
and put on Broadway in '35. more if I find it. -- j
But...I will be the first to buy a copy!
photos of Rand, and have yet to see one where
she was signing a book or holding a pen, but she
wore her watch on her left arm, and her handwriting
sure looks like a right-hander's. betcha she was
right-handed! -- j
Jimi has sold tons more albums....
Ayn Rand's cover album singing Porgy and Bess was a 'bust'.
My 'point' was that way too many discovered 'lost treasures', need to be left lost.
And again (like I said), I will be the first to get a copy...just in case this proves to really be a treasure!
I actually have several boxes of 78 RPM records that my mother collected.
Every Big Band group is in her collection, from Glenn Miller to Jimmy Dorsey.
They are beyond comparison...!
Duke Ellington, Jack Teagarden,Harry
James,Benny Goodman!! Absolutely
beyond comparison. I love your Mom!
One of my computer programs will add (supposedly) the 'pops' and 'ticks' of a vinyl track onto a stark digital song track. I have never tried it.
The same program will remove the inherent tape hiss when you copy an analog tape to digital...that I have used quite a bit!
I have quite a few of my favorite albums in both, and some of my favorite vinyl's duplicated in that super expensive Mobile Fidelity Lab releases (Japanese virgin vinyl, and digitally remastered).
Bottom line was that it was too seductive to buy the Sony CD player that held 300 albums, and you can put it on 'shuffle' and go to Nirvana...!
I still play my vinyls when I get in the mood, and always think to myself just how 'sweeter' the sounds are.
duty!!! -- j
Progress isn't always as advertised....
http://www.mofi.com/
Check them out...you will probably find some of your treasured titles offered!
P.S. I have a Mobility Fidelity Lab copy of the Stone's Sticky Fingers, that would make you cry like a baby...!
it's a discrete 44.1 or so kHz;;; with the vinyl, it's
very likely nearly infinite -- at least during the calm
passages. you can hear the graininess of a CD if
you do an a-b comparison!!! -- j
1229 inches/minute, divided by 60 = 20.48 inches
per second, a bit greater than 15 inches/second for
really fast tape speed ... and there are only a few
transformers to mask the high frequency transitions
and violins and such ... sampling without borders!!! -- j
The biggest problem with vinyl is that it uses a mechanical process which degrades the record (and the stylus, but much less so and at a far slower pace).
You would think that some genius would create a laser based "stylus" that would capture the analog signal and impart the mechanical distortions, thus giving the "sound" of a record and the durability of a CD. Heck, you could probably do this with a digital CD if you had an algorithm of the mechanically caused distortions.
arm traveling along the radius of the LP, like the
laser tracker follows the pits in the CD. twin lasers
would be needed to to do stereo. I would love to
take part in such an endeavor!!! -- j
p.s. does 50 years of dj "service" count?
Rand with her mind and Hendrix with his axe!!! -- j
...
"Emotionally, Ideal is unique among Ayn Rand's works. It is the polar opposite of 'Good Copy'. 'Good Copy' was based on the premise of the impotence and insignificance of evil. But ideal focuses almost exclusively on evil or mediocrity (in a way that even We the Living did not); it is pervaded by Kay Gonda's feeling of alienation from mankind, the feeling, tinged by bitterness, that the true idealist is in a minuscule minority amid an earthful of value-betrayers with whom no communication is possible. In accordance with this perspective, the hero, Johnny Dawes, is not a characteristic Ayn Rand figure, but a misfit utterly estranged from the world, a man whose virtue is that he does not know how to live today (and often wanted to die). If Leo feels this in Soviet Russia, the explanation is political, not metaphysical. But Johnny feels it in the United States."
"In her other works, Ayn Rand herself gave the answer to such a 'malevolent universe' viewpoint, as she called it. Dominque Francon in The Fountainhead, for instance, strikingly resembles Kay and Johny in her idealistic alienation from the world, yet she eventually discovers how to reconcile evil with the 'benevolent universe' approach... Dominique does learn it; but Kay and Johnny do not, or at least not fully. The effect is untypical Ayn Rand: a story written APPROVINGLY from Dominique's initial viewpoint."
...
"Despite its somber essence, however, Ideal is not entirely a malevolent story.... The ending, moreover, however unhappy, is certainly not intended as tragedy or defeat. Johny's final action is ACTION -- that is the whole point -- action to protect the ideal, as against empty words or dreams..."
Much more commentary accompanies the play in The Early Ayn Rand.
McCullough 3-500z. and we have a home-built
Dynaco set, plus a TEAC GX280D reel, plus a host
of Naks -- wonderful tiny tapes created for dances
and weddings and they thought that we were
spinning CDs! -- for many years!!! -- j
Sadly, all three of my Tascams are malfunctioning, except for one that will playback only. I use this one for transferring my tapes to digital.
I have a decent stack of unopened metal cassette tapes if you have any use for them.
no, I don't know whether that's regret or put-on superiority you hear.
great read - even if the wizard did have to help me on the difficult parts.......
can fix tascams. he is good. Russell at dB
electronics, 865-588-9532. in case you're in the
market for a fixer. -- j
new maxells is dwindling, seriously! I have a teac
transcriber here (AD-RW900) which may allow me
to copy my cassette "masters" onto CDs,, one side
at a time. some are priceless -- dance and wedding
masters, Christmas masters -- tapes which have
been copied a hundred times, still pristine. comes
from very frequent demagnetizing and cleaning!!! -- j
p.s. I will be playing the tapes into the teac with a
nak 480. best player in the house!
Thanks for the tip on the Tascam fixer!
with a lot of extra bells and whistles!!! -- j
p.s. how much for the tapes? what brand?
Still sealed:
TDK MA 110
SONY SR 90
MAXELL MX-S 100
MAXELL MX 60
TDK SA 60
SONY HF 60
I'll keep looking for the rest!
480 as the player and the 100 as the recorder,
making tapes which sounded better than the CDs.
[are you aware of the "concert hall" effect which a
tape imparts to music -- a very slight effect, but it is
enough to smooth out the graininess of a CD a
bit ... plus, I cheated on dolby. I recorded with
dolby b engaged, for the master, and then messed
with the tape type and eq (100msec), leaving the
multiplexer and dolby off when making copies ...
found this combo by ear, and it delivered copies
with significant brilliance, and full bass depth.
hundreds of copies. dozens of "masters".
if I attempt to adopt another tape, I will need to
practice with it to find the combination which
works. but I have done this before.....!
such fun!!! -- j
Used on my TASCAM 122 MKIII, the results were astonishing! My final blank Vertex tape was eaten by the TASCAM, and I lost about the first 12 feet...one of these days I will open the case, and salvage this wonderful tape.
I have quite a few of the XLII tapes that have been recorded on, and if you can't get them anymore, maybe you would just tape over them....
By the way...someone just 'dinged' you, for some unknown reason...I'll put you back!