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  • The Rake

    MILITARY PRECISION

    Oct 12, 2018 4 minutes

    by nick scott

    In — the novel referred to as her “hymn in praise of the individual” — Ayn Rand used the parsimony of natural selection to illustrate the beauty of stark functionality. “Why wouldn’t you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end?” asks the architect-protagonist Howard Roark, in defence of a starkly utilitarian building design he’s made, “and with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn’t a single muscle that doesn’t serve a purpose; that there’s not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea,

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