Atlas Shrugged – Day 095 – pp. 1009-1069
Holy crap!!! John Galt has just taken the stage.
Actually he’s used his hulking intellect to commandeer the broadcast.
Hulk Galt say, “Puny looters!”
Certainly, a mind of this superior capacity would obviously have something to say. But Ayn Rand goes nuts. I mean freakin’ nuts. His broadcast, her — what? — diatribe?, lasts for SIXTY pages. SIXTY!
Now, I’m on page 1,009 here. You’d think Rand has gotten her point across by now. I mean, if you can’t deliver a message in this many words… Figure roughly 11 words per line with, pretty consistently 40+ lines per page means 440 words per page times 1,200 pages is in the ballpark estimate of 528,000 words!
If, as a writer, you can’t make a point in over half a million words, maybe you need to find another job.
On the other hand, that’s probably why she leaves a dissertation like this for the very end. We’re all in for a dollar by now.
Anyway, I’m not going to go ten pages at a time for this. I believe (hope) I’ve got the gist. I’m guessing I have an idea of what JG is going to talk about. So I’m going to try to point out some of the highlights of what he says over the course of the broadcast.
(Deep breath) Here we go…
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