Fore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com

More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comTHE REAL ROOT OF EVIL 131may have been trying to keep conversation on safe territory, but Randhad little interest in a nonintellectual relationship. Known for her irascibletemperament, in California Paterson was particularly disagreeable.Rand had arranged several social evenings at her house, which Patersonsystemically ruined. She called two of Rand’s friends “fools” to theirfaces and told Rand after meeting Morrie Ryskind, “I don’t like Jewishintellectuals.” Rand was blunt in her response: “Pat, then I don’t knowwhy you like me.” 83 Tension between the two old friends was buildingwith each hour. Paterson even let it be known that she had passed up thechance to review The Fountainhead so many years before.The final insult came when Paterson met William Mullendore, bynow one of Rand’s closest political allies. Paterson was seeking backingfor a new political magazine, but when Mullendore began questioningher about the venture she lost her temper. Rand remembered, “Sheexploded, but literally. And she started yelling that none of them appreciatedher, hadn’t she worked hard enough, why should she have to writesamples. Couldn’t they take her word?” Mullendore, who had been forewarnedabout Paterson’s character, was prepared for the outburst andkept his cool. 84 But Rand was mortified. When Paterson offered to leavethe next day, Rand agreed. And when Paterson tried to change her mindin the morning, Rand held firm and sent Paterson on her way. It was thelast time the two women would meet.With the ending of their friendship, one of Rand’s rare intellectualidols had crumbled. Rand had always been extravagant in her praise ofPaterson, identifying her as one of the few people who had influencedher intellectual development. Even in the lead-up to their fight she wasstill assuring Paterson, “I learned from you the historical and economicaspects of Capitalism, which I knew before only in a general way.”But afterward she would revise her estimate of Paterson, calling her“completely unoriginal. . . . She was a good technical, competent, ladynovelist—andthat was all.” Paterson, famous in conservative circles forbeing “difficult,” bears much of the responsibility for the ending of thefriendship. As William F. Buckley Jr. later wrote in her obituary, Patersonwas “intolerably impolite, impossibly arrogant, obstinately vindictive.”But the friendship’s end speaks to Rand’s weaknesses as well. Unable tomeet Paterson’s demands for connection, she retreated into silence, amove that exacerbated any intellectual differences between the two. After