Book Club

Live tweeting literary experiences.

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Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" was published 61 years ago today, and since then has served as an excellent way to weed out potential romantic partners.

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@Twigbelly @JoneeKreuz yes the circumstance of now - embrace

(sry there’s a twitter in my word salad)

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@Twigbelly ...that you can identify the presence of bone marrow by scent 🧝🏻‍♀️ #heroes

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ugh B FTW 🤾🏽‍♀️

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“Rearden looked on, his emotions plugged out.”

nothing particularly notable here, only that I think the phrase is kind of awkward and cool.

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well @Twigbelly I hand the dirty football back to you 😅

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If we're going to start tracking chapters which could be given a miss without losing a sense of where one is in the book, this chapter goes on the board.

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overview of the chapter: Hank and Dagny still hate everybody but each other, mysterious things are brought up for discussion, left mysterious, Hank gives Dagny a necklace, they bone.

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which is admittedly a really gross way to describe those pages, but hey. actually reading the pages was worse. trust me.

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the remaining 14 pages are essentially Dagny and Hank masturbating in front of a mirror to their own mutual awesomeness.

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Reardon denies the request to sell his Metal to project X, feels pretty good about it: “He knew that he felt an odd, joyous, light-hearted self-confidence.”

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another punk kid shows up, Reardon asks him about Project X (which apparently he as learned of, and we damn well don't need to know how) and receives smoke up the bum.

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...tho they do say that arson is a sexual crime.

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Hank mulls over Ellis Wyatt's burning oil fields, credits Wyatt with setting the fire, thinks the whole thing is a very good joke, experiences "a spurting, living exultation" which I invite you to interpret as you will.

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Hank engages in a pointless debate with the flunky, calls the kid a punk and tells him to run along. which the kid does.

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“ Nobody is selling the Metal illegally”

wtf? has Hank been capitalizing the word "metal" this whole time? does this mean that a computer made by Apple is actually a Computer? a car by Honda is actually a Car? these are my Opinions (TM)

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The conceit of this whole book, the “what if the US had never been a capitalist enterprise,” is an ongoing challenge to remember and apply.

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there's some discussion of the Fair Share Law, which seems to be a Frankenstatute of communism and eminent domain.

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Gwen Ives - who is one of seven wives and possessor of a cat in a sack with seven kits and seven kittens.