RANDBLOGGING - part V

Just finished Chapter 6. Oh, what glorious sarcasm. It's almost dripping from the pages - both implied and inferred, and so subtle (except for Francisco's speech to Jim Taggart). So ingrained into the storyline.

Claude Slagenhop, president of the non-profit charitable Friends of Global Progress (page 132): "I've said in all my speeches that it's not necessary to talk too much."

Dr. Pritchett, the philosophy professor (page 129): "A free economy cannot exist without competition. Therefore, men must be forced to compete. Therefore, we must control men in order to force them to be free."

Couple good gender-war shots in here, too: Lillian's "I have never entertained the illusion that men are superior to animals" (well, duh, we're not - was that supposed to be an insult?); and the literature professor calling Dagny Taggart a "symptom of the illness of our century...a woman who runs a railroad" instead of staying barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.

Nice. Very nice.

This thing about John Galt having been sucked down into Atlantis - not sure what to make of that.

I'm a hundred and fifty-seven pages into this thing, and it's like I haven't even cracked it yet. This is a looooooong book.

Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV