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To Keep Your Marriage Brimming With Love in The Loving Cup, Whenever You're Wrong, Admit It Whenever You're Right, Shut Up

This document contains summaries of 3 different sections: 1) It provides background on a collection of unpublished fiction by Ayn Rand, showing her development as a writer from ages 21 to 35. It includes short stories, plays, novel excerpts and more. 2) It summarizes the plot of "The Husband I Bought", about a woman who uses her inheritance to pay off her new husband's debts in order to buy their happiness. 3) It gives an overview of the plot of Anthem, one of Rand's novellas, about a man who questions his dystopian society where individualism and independence have been outlawed.

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To Keep Your Marriage Brimming With Love in The Loving Cup, Whenever You're Wrong, Admit It Whenever You're Right, Shut Up

This document contains summaries of 3 different sections: 1) It provides background on a collection of unpublished fiction by Ayn Rand, showing her development as a writer from ages 21 to 35. It includes short stories, plays, novel excerpts and more. 2) It summarizes the plot of "The Husband I Bought", about a woman who uses her inheritance to pay off her new husband's debts in order to buy their happiness. 3) It gives an overview of the plot of Anthem, one of Rand's novellas, about a man who questions his dystopian society where individualism and independence have been outlawed.

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How to be an awesome being?

To keep your marriage brimming


With love in the loving cup,
Whenever youre wrong, admit it;
Whenever youre right, shut up.

Issued two years after Ayn Rands death in 1982, this collection of
previously unpublished fiction shows some of the steps by which Rand
developed her literary abilities. (Because the plays Ideal and Think
Twiceare covered as part of the collection Three Plays on this site,
those plays are not discussed at length here.)
Rands progress as a writer, from age 21 to 35, is apparent in the
thirteen complete and partial works presented here: six short stories,
two stage plays, four excerpts from drafts of novels, and a screen
scenario.
A word of caution from Rands literary executor, Leonard Peikoff: To
those unfamiliar with Ayn Rand, . . . I want to say that this book is not
the place to begin. Read her novels first along with any nonfiction
of personal interest. Then, if you wish, pick up the present collection.

As The Husband I Bought opens, 21-year-old Irene Wilmer


seemingly has everything: great beauty, a large inheritance and the
best house in her little hometown but what she wants most is the
love of Henry Stafford. Despite his love for her, Stafford is in financial
trouble and doesnt want to be a gold digger.
With passionate pleading, Irene overcomes Henrys resistance and
becomes Mrs. Henry Stafford, devoting her entire inheritance to pay
his debts. Four years of perfect, delirious happiness follow but

then Claire Van Dahlen comes to town, and Irenes love for Henry will
be tested in ways she had dreaded even to conceive.
The title has a double meaning. It encompasses not only Irenes
decision to use her inheritance to wipe out her new husbands debts,
but also the much dearer emotional price she would pay to buy
happiness for the man she loves.

Equality 7-2521 tells us he is a sinner and criminal. But what crimes


has he committed? Being alone, writing, having personal preferences.
He is cursed with an active, questioning mind in a society where
every institution aims to crush independence and instill obedience to
the authority of the collective.
Intelligent and inquisitive, Equality 7-2521 longs to become a scientist
and devote his life to discovery and invention. Instead, he is beaten by
his teachers and assigned the life work of street sweeper. When,
against all odds, he rediscovers the secret power of a lost relic from
the ancient past, he must confront the full reality of his societys ideals.
Fleeing his society, Equality 7-2521 comes to see that his curse is
actually his greatest virtue his independent, rational mind and

that it is his societys collectivism that must be rejected in defense of


the sacred value of mans ego.

Ayn Rand came of age during the ascendancy of collectivism across


the globe not only in communist Russia, from which she escaped in
1926, but also in fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and to an alarming
degree in her adopted homeland, America. Rand identified
collectivism the idea that individuals should be subjugated to the
group and sacrificed for the common good not only as a moral evil
but as the essential cause of the political evils then engulfing the
civilized world.

In the summer of 1937, Rand took a break from working on The


Fountainhead to write the novelette called Anthem, a short, highly
stylized tale of a future dystopia so saturated in collectivism that the
word I has disappeared from the language.
First published in England in 1938, Anthem was rejected by
collectivist-dominated American publishers in the 1930s an
American edition (slightly revised by Rand) did not appear until 1946.

I am not yours, not lost in you,


Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.
You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.
Oh plunge me deep in love -- put out
My senses, leave me deaf and blind,
Swept by the tempest of your love,
A taper in a rushing wind.

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