[Still Thinking]

It's an outstanding and a worthy novel. It's current success shows that there is a great desire for a novel to fill this niche. There is another novel out there now that does so, which is not set in the train era, but in 2009.

I'll give you this: you're MUCH better at dialog than Rand. I can see Dagny or Hank type individuals thinking the things Rand has them thinking, and perhaps even doing the things they do, but they definitely wouldn't say the things she has them say. Billthedrill was griping last week, rightfully IMHO, about Dagny saying "…when the flood swallows it we’ll go down with the last wheel and the last syllogism…". So far, I haven't caught one of your characters use the word "syllogism". Eschew obfuscation.

[Travis McGee]

“I shall always strive for dialogue of the highest and most realistic caliber, Darling. Or Dear.”