Music is an art without an apparent object – there are no scenes to look at, no
sculptured marbles to touch, no stories to follow – and yet it can cause some of the most
passionate and intense feelings possible. How does this happen – how can sounds from
resonant bodies produce emotion (1) in man?
Navigator: Perhaps you could begin by telling us something of the history of the New Intellectual Forum. Who started it, and when?
Originally published in Objectivity, Volume 1, Number 2.
In Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged, Ken Danagger asks Dagny Taggart:
“And if you met those great men in heaven, . . . what would you want to say to them?”
“Just . . . just hello, I guess.”
“That’s not all,” said Danagger. “There’s something you’d want to hear from them . . . you’d want them to look at you and say, Well done.”
She dropped her head and nodded silently. . . . (Rand 1957, 735)
