"He" the words rang out in Paul's head like a fucking bell. "He". How can this sack of fat cells be influenced by Ayn Rand if he doent even know that his "influence" is a bloody women. How can that even be possible?
He reached over and grabbed a water bottle off his desk. With a stone cold face he sipped it, tuning out from the ever growing list of authors that this thing was inspired by.
"How could one man be so fucking stupid as to mix up the gender of his favourite supposed author." Paul thought. "Perhaps he just simply misremembered it. Maybe he just said her name because it made him sound smart."
"Or maybe." Thought Paul.
"Maybe this is what our culture has become. An endless march towards the furture, towards progression, towards bettering ourselves, that ultimately causes us to leave behind the past in search of the new and the bold. Maybe past influences don't matter anymore. Maybe they are just something to be referenced, a quick short hand used to bolsters one own reputation."
Paul's eyes widened, staring off into the void of empty space as his train of thought started to speed at dangerous levels.
"If this is true, that the person doesn't matter anymore, that the person, the author, their lives mean nothing compared to their work, then what would that mean for an average joe like me? Do the things I do even matter? Have I suffered all of this pain for nothing?"
The thought rattled inside of Paul's head, clinking and clanking.
"If existence is meaningless..." Paul thought...
Suddenly his train came to a crashing halt as the loud buzzing of a cellphone rang out in the office. "Oh sorry." The PigMan apologized. "That's my call from work. Means I have to get back, back to working with those complete idiots." Paul nodded slowly, trying to piece togeather how exactly Fat Albert didn't realize he stopped listening entirely.
"Anyways I'll leave the book here. Give it a read. As I said earlier, it's heavily influenced by J?K Rowling."