The Final Ride of The Taggart Comet (from Atlas Shrugged)

Atlas Shrugged | 1957 | Ayn Rand

[BraveMan]

Another book I loaned out & lost. Oh, well . . .

Thanks for the excerpt. Triggering memories of a long though enjoyable read.

Mr. Galt can be long winded in his speeches to a captive audience . . .

[V K Lee]

“Another book I loaned out & lost”

Must have done the same, here. Searched for it on the shelves several years ago but unable to find the copy. Now, it appears it might not need to be read again, we’ll be a part of our own real life “Atlas Shrugged”.

[usconservative]

The most memorable sequence in Atlas Shrugged IMHO.

Wyatt's Torch was pretty powerful too, IMHO.

As I've sat here and read this thread up to your post I've drawn so many correlations to today's world .... it's almost frightening.

[Publius]

Atlas Shrugged flashback thread.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Jmouse007]

It is frightening and sad to read these words of fiction, penned not so long ago, ...and understand that they have become cold hard reality throughout much of America today. The land that once truly was "the land of the free, and the home of the brave".

May almighty God have mercy on our once great nation before it is indeed too late, if it isn't already. Tagline

[OwenKellogg]

You might enjoy this.

[Billyv]

Atlas Shrugged is the Liberal Playbook, they feel confident they can prevent Atlas from Shrugging. They are wrong.

[Godzilla]

Unbelievably accurate description of today’s progressivism

[Tijeras_Slim]

Thanks for the ping, and thanks for your book.

[Billthedrill]

When we started that project I recall thinking that certain parts of AS were overblown and improbable. They weren't.

Anyone unfamiliar with the novel but reluctant to take on an 1100-word behemoth could find the salient ideas in these two selections:

Francisco d'Anconia's Money Speech, and

Hobo Jeff Allen's relation of The Story of The Twentieth Century Motor Company.

Oh, and don't kill yourself trying to digest all of Chapter 26 at once. Rand's editor, Bennett Cerf, thought it would have been a better novel without it. Rand thought there would have been no novel without it. They were both right.

[Vermont Lt]

That was one long speech. Something like 30 pages.

[Vermont Lt]

Not for nothin’ but this is copyrighted material that you cannot just cut and paste whenever you want.

[Ciaphas Cain]

For some reason or another, the disaster in Minnesota - when there are no trains to ship the grain and the farmers revolt - doesn't enjoy nearly as much discussion as it should.

That entire chapter is downright prescient when it comes to the elites versus "the deplorables". Hillary stating that the coasts and urban areas are the enlightened betters while the rural heartland's are a backward and sorry people...

She and those like her should read that one chapter. And then think REAL damn hard about their choice of words.

[Red Badger]

Karma cum laud............................

[Teacher317]

So does Trump “go Galt” and let the carnage come when the Lefties have finally pushed too far?

[Cymbaline]

The man in Car #3, Seat #7, believed in White Privilege and that individual effort was irrelevant.

The woman in Car #6, Seat #10, believed that the Second Amendment should be repealed and that no one should own guns. She also tried to convince everyone on Twitter that no one was trying to take their guns.

The man in Car #8, Seat #11 railed against “The 1%” and believed that he was owed a job.

The man in Car #9, Seat #2 believed that he was a woman, and that people who called him “sir” should be punished by law.