Atlas Shrugged – Day 104 – pp. 1160-1169
This is it!! (Apparently I miscounted.) The final installment!
“The locomotive of the eastbound Comet broke down in the middle of a desert in Arizona. … Eddie Willers called for the conductor…”
The Great Escape
Atlas Shrugged – Day 103 – pp. 1150-1159
Now we get a little hokey.
Francisco grills the subdued guards. How many guards are there? Where? What are these rooms?
It’s military precision. (You wonder, when you’re an expert at one thing, it would seem, in Rand’s universe, you’re an expert at everything. Continue reading “The Great Escape”
The “Passion” of John Galt (or the end of Jim Taggart)
Atlas Shrugged – Day 102 – pp. 1140-1149
No it ain’t.
“Long coils of wire, like the twisted arms of an octopus, stretched forward across the stone floor, from the machine to a leather mattress spread under a cone of violent light. John Galt lay strapped to the mattress, He as naked; the small metal disks of electrodes at the ends of the wires were attached to his wrists, his shoulders, his hips and his ankles…”
Sounds like an impressive creation. Wonder where Dr F bought the kit for that?
They turn on the machine and hear the buzz from the generator and the amplified sound of John Galt’s heartbeat.
Now he makes a fairly ridiculous sounding demand of Galt.
Continue reading “The “Passion” of John Galt (or the end of Jim Taggart)”
Project X and Project F
Atlas Shrugged – Day 101… – pp. 1130-1139
Rushing to the end….
What did Dr S see???
The “Galt-Stadler” Plan
Atlas Shrugged – Day 100 – pp. 1120-1129
“The elevator stopped on the mezzanine floor.”
The group was surrounded by soldiers as they approached the door of the WF ballroom.
Chick Morrison opened the door.
The beginning of the end?
Atlas Shrugged – Day 99 – pp. 1110-1119
What does John Galt want?
Mr. Thompson’s private lesson
Atlas Shrugged – Day 098 – pp. 1100-1109
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Does it always take this long to read the last 100 pages of a book? Or only when you run into the holidays?
OK, I’m still waiting on some threat to the entire world by the Thompson Harmonizer / Project X thing. What a POS red herring that would be if Rand didn’t follow up on it.
Anywho…
John Galt is being held in the Wayne-Falkland Hotel by the band of looters and presently being interrogated by their leader. Mr Thompson has just offered Galt the position of Economic Dictator of the world.