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EPILOGUE: AYN RAND IN AMERICAN MEMORY<br />

and a sense of the sacred. She maintained that these emotions were not<br />

supernatural in origin, but were “the entire emotional realm of man’s<br />

dedication to a moral ideal.” It was these emotions she wanted to stir<br />

with The Fountainhead, “without the self-abasement required by religious<br />

defi nitions.” 15 Rand intended her books to be a sort of scripture,<br />

and for all her emphasis on reason it is the emotional and psychological<br />

sides of her novels that make them timeless. Reports of Ayn Rand’s<br />

death are greatly exaggerated. For many years to come she is likely to<br />

remain what she has always been, a fertile touchstone of the American<br />

imagination.<br />

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