Joey: Hey, know what we can do, so I can get prepared for
the audition? Let’s role-play our own version of "The
Fountainhead".
Rachel: Our own version? Why would we want to write our own
version of it! This book is great.
The others: "Yes." "One of the best books I ever read." "Can’t
get better than this"
Joey: Come on, if you wanted to write it today, would you
write the same book?
Phoebe: Well, for one thing: didn’t it bother you that
Dominique Francon, the main female character, didn’t do
anything in the best years of her life, except like…
sleeping with people?
Ross: yeah. All the characters in fact do nothing in the
20’s and 30’s, except maybe build a couple of
buildings.
Joey: If you ask me: the book is too slow-paced for the
90’s. I mean, in the 60’s it may have worked but we’re
in the information age now.
Ross: Joey, "The Fountainhead" was written in 1943.
Joey: Yeah, but it was still good enough in the 60’s right?
OK: our own version of "The Fountainhead" - here’s what
I think it should look like