No, that’s the other one.
She never had that effect on me, but I guess Heinlein influenced me starting at age 12? I wasn’t that impressed by Ayn Rand. For books that English teachers had us read, she was better and more interesting than most, but overall nothing great to me.
I guess those are the rules which are the exception that proves the rule. 
Why do we keep rehashing other threads in this thread?
What are they THINKING?
What’s all this slagging of Rand McNally and their atlas? I’ve found them to be very helpful guides to get me where I need to go in the past, though these days I rely on GPS.
I want my atlas to be precise and confident, I don’t want one that just shrugged.
When you’re somewhere deep in Texas, even an atlas will give up hope on figuring out how much there’s yet to go.
Your atlas shrugs as your windshield fills with bugs
(CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP)
Deep in the heaaaart of Texas
Sorry. Just a little self snark
I was interested in reading that thread but I haven’t gotten around to it. Though from skimming the gist consensus seemed to be, “No, she’s not misunderstood and she sucks.” Which is more or less where I came down anyway.
Very nice. 
I think Geoffry Chaucer, rather than Shakespeare.
And even then, she is unintelligible.
* sidenote: my mother speaks quite fluent Middle English, but then again she was an English teacher. I studied Chaucer at school but never really got the pronunciation right.
Not for lack of trying.
We had to recite by heart – what was it? – the first 18 lines of the General Prologue with proper Middle English pronunciation in my Chaucer class. I enjoyed it.
I remember my older sister had to study that as a senior in high school, she would practice pronunciation on us at dinner. This was the mid-60s. Two years later, not a whisper of Chaucer in my senior English class. Was it optional for the teacher (my teacher was not very erudite, I would say), or had the curriculum changed? I didn’t even think about it at the time, now I wonder.
Nerd!
That would be cool.
I must have been under-educated. I recall no such experience. In fact I recall no exposure to Chaucer at all, although I got lots of Shakespeare in high school and later, serendipitously, in university in a class taught by a great Shakesperean scholar. Have always loved Shakespeare, never understood Chaucer. The guy probably never learned proper English!