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                                              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?)                      http://neptune.spaceports.com/~queen/Other%20Media_1.html

                                                    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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