Xenonaut's World of Chaos — "i love you always forever" by donna lewis and...

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Anonymous asked:

"i love you always forever" by donna lewis and donna lewis only original 1996 cut not the 2008 remaster.

dyatlovpassingprivilege answered:

one of those songs that’s hard to rate because of how ubiquitous it is. no denying that it’s catchy as hell

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In the summer of 1975 I found myself in Paris. I was broke, a student, and jobless, having moved back in with my parents. I took a bus and went to a bookstore in the Place de la Contrescarpe. I thought if I read for several hours I’d have a little bit of money, then I could maybe go to a bar with some friends that night. I had a book on the history of the American right wing that I’d been trying to get to read for years, which had been banned because of its explicit sex and violence. I’d seen the movie Excalibur and had heard a lot about Salby, the author, but had not yet read any of his novels.

I found a book called Ayn Rand: The Russian Years in the window. I bought it, and for the first time in my life, a real book took a big part of my heart.

Ayn Rand: The Russian Years was the story of a young girl’s first experience of the outside world, her coming of age on the margins of a closed, repressive, and cruel society. It’s not something I would ever want any young woman to read, but if I’d have read it at 18 instead of 22, I might have made different choices. I’d have grown up, I might have flourished, I might have had a life. But she did not.

Rand went to school in St. Petersburg, Russia, the heart of the empire. She had no language other than Russian, which she loved, and she thought of Russia as home. Her world was closed and hateful, and her teachers, the Communists who made up the majority of the educated classes, were worse than the priests she’d had in Czestochowa or Poland.

Ayn was not a bright child, but she had some precocity. She loved to read. Her father forbade her from doing so, but Ayn was a very determined child. She broke the rules, and she was punished. Then she was told not to read in class. When she disobeyed teachers and went back to her books, the Communists threw a heavy desk at her head.

This was Ayn’s coming of age, and I think of it very frequently. Ayn was not given a second chance. She was not given a path to success or fulfillment. Her whole life was taken away from her. She was beaten and humiliated as a child.

When we read Ayn Rand for the first time, she says that she always knew who she was. She says that she always knew that she was a woman. As a boy, she could not know this, and she does not blame her parents or teachers. She says, “I could not know it in myself. It was the feeling of the first person I had ever been aware of, a human being with an identity, with a will to live.”

This feeling is not an experience that will be had by most women.

- Dorothy and Ayn Rand: The Russian Years and After (D.W. Brod)