Important Scholarship

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Let me tell you about To Lorne Dieterling. A mystery I have solved.

TLD is the unfinished, unpublished, final novel of Ayn Rand. What she was working on when she died of a heart attack and was buried in the mud and did not ascend to John Rockefeller’s rape dungeon in the sky on the back of a golden rocket horse, spitefully taking with her (as was her right) our very knowledge of shoes.*

Or so we thought.

The plot, text and focus of TLD have been debated among Randians ever since. Leonard Peikoff, her bizarre manservant, has kept the notes secret. Their content is only hinted at in The Early Ayn Rand, their existence only noted in The Journals of Ayn Rand. A mystery for the ages.

Until now.

The reason Piekoff has not released Dieterling is that the work was finished, but very short. Also, the format was odd. Less a "book" than a "tightly rolled scroll of human flesh" intended less to be "published" than "stained with the blood of an orphan." The text was brief but memorable.

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What was will be
What is will be no more
Death is but a door
Time is but a window
I’ll be back

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If Reason wants to do an interview, I am available for questions. Leave a comment, and we can talk appearance fees.

*Ayn thought the patent system worked like the machine from The Neverending Story 2. No one can explain why she thought that, but she thought it really hard.