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==Explanation==
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This is a play off the typical "hidden door" in which  you pull down the right book and suddenly a wall of books turns into a hidden door.  In this case, the book is Atlas Shrugged and instead of a secret passage, the wall swings around and takes you to a message "You Have Terrible Taste".
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[Person stands in front of a bookshelf]
 
[Person stands in front of a bookshelf]
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[The whole piece of kit moves back to its original position.  The person stands there mildly stunned.]
 
[The whole piece of kit moves back to its original position.  The person stands there mildly stunned.]
==Explanation==
 
Again, I'm late.  Sorry.  Life getting in the way of my explaining.
 
 
This is a play off the typical "hidden door" in which  you pull down the right book and suddenly a wall of books turns into a hidden door.  In this case, the book is Atlas Shrugged and instead of a secret passage, the wall swings around and takes you to a message "You Have Terrible Taste".
 
 
Atlas Shrugged is a dystopian novel by Ayrn Rand.
 
  
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1049: Bookshelf
I had a hard time with Ayn Rand because I found myself enthusiastically agreeing with the first 90% of every sentence, but getting lost at 'therefore, be a huge asshole to everyone.'
Title text: I had a hard time with Ayn Rand because I found myself enthusiastically agreeing with the first 90% of every sentence, but getting lost at 'therefore, be a huge asshole to everyone.'

Explanation

This is a play off the typical "hidden door" in which you pull down the right book and suddenly a wall of books turns into a hidden door. In this case, the book is Atlas Shrugged and instead of a secret passage, the wall swings around and takes you to a message "You Have Terrible Taste".

Atlas Shrugged is a dystopian novel by Ayn Rand.

Transcript

[Person stands in front of a bookshelf]

Person: Ooo, Atlas Shrugged

[Person yanks out book only for a click to be heard]

[The entire setup begins to rumble, while the bookcase and a surrounding platform takes both it and the person behind the wall]

[The tiny, dark room behind the wall has one thing painted on it]

Wall: You have terrible taste.

[The whole piece of kit moves back to its original position. The person stands there mildly stunned.]


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Discussion

Rig this up to the entire twilight section. Problem solved. Davidy22[talk] 13:57, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Does Atlas Shrugged have any particular relevance to the strip? Alpha (talk) 02:14, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Ayn Rand is pretty controversial, and a lot of people dismiss her books outright. Some of them are an interesting read, though. -- 217.28.5.48 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

There is a factual inaccuracy in the explanation here — her philosophy is libertarian, not conservative. Please fix that. 46.150.103.149 14:47, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

"far-right" ??? This very subjective and insulting. But I guess it's the aim of such assertion. 109.255.215.93 07:47, 14 October 2013 (UTC) Another inaccuracy: Rand herself found the Libertarians, like any political party, to be counterintuitive to her philosophy of Objectivism. Though I think "libertarian" should be changed to "objectivism," I'll leave it and just make a side-note, because one could say that Atlas Shrugged is to Libertarians as the Bible is to Christians. Jinx 20:55, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

I have to agree, Objectivism is a philosophy, Libertarianism is a political movement. Although the two have a few overlaps, they are very different things. Rand was adamantly opposed the Libertarian Party and and wrote quite a bit about her objections. 173.245.54.175 23:36, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Does Libertarianism have anything to do with this strip? Why is it included 173.245.50.156 21:24, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

As a communist, I love this one :DInternational Space Station (talk) 15:56, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Reading Atlas Shrugged right now. Randal's political beliefs would probably place him among the villains of the piece, a comic criticizing an influential work based on taste might place him there as well. Doesn't matter, my terrible tastes lead to me reading Atlas shrugged and xkcd so... careful Randal. 172.69.6.94 14:12, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

All you guys in talk:

Proverb a hit dog will holler

(US) An offended or defensive response to a statement suggests that the statement applies to the person complaining. 172.68.38.120 02:27, 26 July 2020 (UTC)