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VALLEY_OF_THE_LIVING_DEAD

                                              January 17, 2007

An episode of "The Shadow", broadcast
on January 22, 1939, was called:

  "Valley Of The Living Dead"

It might've been written by Ayn Rand.          And actually, it might
                                               literally have been written
A twisted fellow, who under cover              by her.
of altruism, enjoys controlling
other people's lives, forcing                  I gather it's not
them to depend on him.                         entirely clear who wrote
                                               the early Shadow radio
  He keeps his son's legs                      scripts... there's a
  locked into an unnecessary,                  theory that this one
  painful metal cast.                          *might* have been written
                                               by the original Ellery
    His wife is kept in a                      Queen team:
    wheel chair (solely by
    psychological domination?)                      [ref]

                                                    QUEENS
An entire Valley of people supported
by his largess, staggering around
like zombies because he insists on             This radio show was broadcast
protecting them from the evils of the          a few years after Rand's first
outside commercial world.                      novel: "We the Living" (1936)

                                                    And several years before
                                                    "The Fountainhead" (1943)

                                               RAND


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