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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com188WHO IS JOHN GALT? 1957–1968presentation. In his role as commentator he held forth as an authority,commending Rand in some areas, tweaking her in others, suggestingavenues of further inquiry or points to clarify. This was not thekind of treatment Rand had expected, and she was deeply hurt. At thereception afterward neither she nor the Collective would acknowledgeHospers’s presence. By criticizing her in public Hospers had committedan unforgivable error, made all the worse by Rand’s sensitivity toher status among intellectuals. He tried to heal the breach, but Randwould never again speak to him. Hospers continued to acknowledgeRand as an influence, including a discussion of her work in his textbook,Introduction to Philosophical Analysis. But he alone could do littleto transform Rand’s reputation in the academy. Later he even cameto believe his identification with Rand cost him a job at UCLA and aGuggenheim fellowship. 41The long years of labor on Atlas Shrugged, the stress of her relationshipwith Nathan and her disappointment in Frank, regular drug useand unhealthy personal habits, all had culminated in a mental rigiditythat increasingly defined Rand. She was even unwilling to acknowledgeher own intellectual development, releasing an edited version of We theLiving in 1959 that erased any passages at odds with Objectivism. 42 Foryears she had sealed herself off from all outside influences save Nathanand Leonard, and it was now impossible for her to communicate withcontemporaries. The woman who had written long demonstrative lettersto Isabel Paterson and Rose Wilder Lane, trying her best to understandand be understood, had vanished forever.