You are being generous. That speech is about 100 pages of beating a dead horse. I always thought it could have been condensed into about 20 pages or even less.
I love the book because it was so prescient but her Atheism shows through with the crappy love-type story.
It's not a very good painting, one of her early ones, but this one has meaning to me. I didn't even have to tell her...she KNEW which books were my favorites just listening me talk about them over the years and watching me re-read them. That sloppy little painting is worth gold to me.
Boy, do I have it good.
My favorite line in Galt’s speech is at the end where he says something like, “I’ve now been speaking to you for just under an hour.” First time I read that, I thought “wait a minute, I’ve been reading this speech forever,” so I started flipping back through the pages to see how long it had been going. I defy anybody to read that out loud in less than an hour. It cracks me up every time I read it.