Someone had to have made Ayn Rand a bet; she would seize any opportunity to make a buck. I guess it would be sacrilege not to for any capitalist. Geez Ayn, always taking the easy way out:
"There are two aspects of man's existence which are the special province and expression of his sense of life: Love and Art... Love is a response to values. It is with a person's sense of life that one falls in love-- with that essential sum, that fundamental stand or way of facing existence, which is the essence of a personality. One falls in love with the embodiment of the values that formed a person's character, which are reflected in his widest goals or smallest gestures, which create the style of his soul-- the individual style of a unique, unrepeatable, irreplaceable consciousness.
...It is not a matter of professed convictions (though these are not irrelevant); it is a matter of much more profound, conscious and subconscious harmony. Many errors and tragic disillusionments are possible in this process of emotional recognition, since a sense of life, by itself, is not a reliable cognitive guide. And if there are degrees of evil, then one of the most evil consequences of mysticism--in terms of human suffering--is the belief that love is a matter of "the heart", not the mind, that love is an emotion independent of reason, that love is blind and impervious to the power of philosophy.
Love is the expression of philosophy--of a subconscious philosophical sum--and, perhaps, no other aspect of human existence needs the conscious power of philosophy so desperately. When that power is called upon to verify and support an emotional appraisal, when love is a conscious integration of reason and emotion, of mind and values, then--and only then--it is the greatest reward of man's life."
-Ayn Ran, The Romantic Manifesto
I think Ayn collected on that particular gamble.
