I'm sorry, I am habitually conditioned to do this every time Ayn Rand is mentioned. To those of you to whom she happened along during a "life changing period" I'm gonna apologize upfront.
So yes, a rather bad romance writer who tossed in her undergrad philosophy thesis every now and again for fifty interminable pages along with a TON of weirdness about trains, well SURE, she might round out the mix nicely. We won't LEARN anything other than her editorial team was sparse, but yeah, some general hilarity in between the horrifying reality of the universe could have usefulness. LOL.
And I read her stuff at 17 (more than Atlas Shrugged) and after my Master's degree for fairness, and I do think my philosophy department was correct in "banning" (well more like laughing her out of) the cannon although we DID have our own generational sins, like LACAN.
Ayn Rand should have been allowed to live her life in peace (in fact, I think she even DESERVED the government assistance she so happily availed herself of, when necessary even though it was against her FERVENT BELIEF structure) but Lacan should have been burned at the stake while his child was taken into a safe home where the surrounding adults could actually use small enough words to communicate with it. There's a reason the kid was so obsessed with the dang mirror, he could INTERACT with it.
Anna