But that's just grammatically wrong, in English. Appositive clauses require a comma. Forgetting God, you can just look at the sentence "To my mother, Ayn Rand.

But that's just grammatically wrong, in English. Appositive clauses require a comma. Forgetting God, you can just look at the sentence "To my mother, Ayn Rand." We put a comma there because the object of the sentence is "mother," and then we're clarifying who "mother" is. We'd only omit the comma if "Mother Ayn Rand" were a noun phrase all by itself, like "Father John." Similarly: "This is to my arch-nemesis, Ayn Rand, who always doubted me." The commas are necessary there for the same reason. (How did Ayn Rand enter this discussion..?)