[Nam Vet]

CottonBall ..... What a fine name ! I, too, will be a first time reader of AS. (will pick up a copy tomorrow and catch up) While I've known the general theme for many years, I too am disappointed that Galt's Gulch is as described.

Publius ...... Thanks for the fantastic idea of a Freeper Book Club and especially starting with AS.

Nam Vet

[Publius]

...I too am disappointed that Galt's Gulch is as described.

FReeper Billthedrill likened Galt's Gulch to the Nordic Valhalla, perhaps as described by German opera composer Richard Wagner. (Billthedrill and I have an ongoing discourse about Wagner, Hitler, and today's Islamic fascists and their fellow travelers in the Left.) Every CO needs a good XO (Army) just as every Skipper needs a good Exec (Navy). Behind every American business success was an XO or Exec without whom things would not have been done properly. (There is a great deal of that in early railroading.) Rand should have saved space for us XO's.

But withhold judgment until we get there. Let the journey unfold. The idea of doing this slowly is to get people to go beyond the plot and dig into the underlay, making comparisons to the mess we're in today.