Monday, October the 17th, 2005

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The Hooting Yard Treasury Of Recondite Yet Somehow Arresting Facts is currently in preparation. After much thought, and a bowl of Mrs Gubbins' delicious soup, we decided to use a simple question-and-answer format for this mighty undertaking. Here is a sneak preview, especially for website readers:

Q—Ayn Rand, the gravel-voiced amd dementedly right wing author of such pap as The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) was, as we know, a keen collector of postage stamps*, but what I really want to know is the title of the song played at her funeral service in 1982. (I know that this is not phrased as a question, but bear with me.)

A—The song played at Ayn Rand's funeral was It's A Long Way To Tipperary.

* NOTE : See Preposterous Authors, 4 October 2004 for further details.