Hi Dear Publius!
Finished Atlas Shrugged and just finishing up your book!
Chuckling with you over you critique of the clunky post-speech action! Poor Eddie. Sometimes I feel JUST like him!
The “Nutcracker” is a yearly fixture in Boston starring The Boston Ballet and several children’s ballet schools.
One year, the Arabian Dance was so salacious that it almost got the ting cancelled! It was totally unnecessary in a production that was aimed at CHILDREN.
I have seen it MANY times, but now it is too expensive.
PS. I wrote a review of your book under the handle “EmmelleBassWoamn.”
Btd and I just got our annual royalty check, and it certainly could have been fatter.
We noted how things kind of fall apart after John Galt's speech and how Eddie gets short shrift out in the Arizona desert. After all, giving your train passengers up to a wagon train has to be a bit deflating.
Btd wrote that beautiful coda about how the world rebuilds after Atlas has shrugged. I was touched by Eddie's arrival at a walled village that was building itself back after the fall.
It's unfortunate about the Arabian Dance. The Met's production of "Samson and Delilah," which I have on DVD, had an incredibly salacious Bacchanale, full of implied hetero- and homosexual acts, and the salaciousness was fine there. But not in the Nutcracker, dammit!