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FReeper Book Club: Atlas Shrugged, The Man Who Belonged on Earth
A Publius Essay
| 28 March 2009
| Publius
Posted on 03/28/2009 7:39:14 AM PDT by Publius
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To: Explorer89
Never used the chemistry in my professional career, just wanted to take P-Chem for giggles.
You do have an odd sense of humor!
To: CottonBall
Right you are my fluffy, absorbent friend.
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posted on
03/29/2009 10:06:32 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: stylin_geek
What price will government exact for his non-cooperation? (Fist stuffed firmly in mouth) - you are so right. I just re-read that chapter. Let's just say that it's very much in character for the guys doing it.
I'm doing my best to stay only a couple of chapters ahead this time through so I won't pepper the thread with spoilers, and it's getting harder and harder. I can see why people give up on the novel - it's taken, what, 500 pages to get the characters in place and the plot established to where you actually can anticipate move and counter-move. But we're there at last. The novel is like one of Dagny's trains, slow to pick up speed and impossible to stop once it does.
To: Billthedrill
I sometimes wonder if Hank Rearden and his company are modeled after John Rockefeller and the Standard Oil trust.
Some interesting parallels there.
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posted on
03/30/2009 9:55:09 AM PDT
by
stylin_geek
(Senators and Representatives : They govern like Calvin Ball is played, making it up as they go along)
To: Still Thinking
LOL!
You are the first to refer to my rather odd screen name. I see you are truly ‘Still Thinking’!
To: Publius
First time visitor to this thread.
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posted on
03/30/2009 8:17:25 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
(I heard Joe the Plumber speak 03-30-2009.)
To: Ciexyz
Good to have you. Go to Post #2 and check out all the other threads that lead to this one.
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posted on
03/30/2009 8:18:16 PM PDT
by
Publius
(The Quadri-Metallic Standard: Gold and silver for commerce, lead and brass for protection.)
To: Billthedrill
I'm doing my best to stay only a couple of chapters ahead this time through so I won't pepper the thread with spoilers, and it's getting harder and harder. I can see why people give up on the novel - it's taken, what, 500 pages to get the characters in place and the plot established to where you actually can anticipate move and counter-move. But we're there at last. The novel is like one of Dagny's trains, slow to pick up speed and impossible to stop once it does. Well put, Mister Thedrill... I made comments myself similar to those upthread, that Rand 'really needed an editor' and such. But I found myself later in the book increasingly enjoying the very longwindedness of it. The last chapter was agonizing inasmuch as I knew that the story was at long last going to have to stop and I really didn't want it to. I wanted it to just keep going. Like Dagny's trains indeed.
128
posted on
04/02/2009 3:11:03 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: Publius
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posted on
04/07/2009 6:22:18 AM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
To: demsux
Wesley Mouch = Barak Obama Naah, Wesley Mouch = Barney Frank
To: r-q-tek86
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posted on
08/14/2009 6:09:54 PM PDT
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r-q-tek86
("A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom." - Ayn Rand)
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