Atlas Shrugged Trivia-Bring It!
From the Movies or from the book-stump us, or tweak our newbies by asking a question we have to answer-Oh, I want easter eggs from the movies! but also from Atlas Shrugged, the book. Let's compile a bunch of questions to tempt gulchers to delve-either re-watch Parts I-III or crack the spine of that beloved piece of life-changing novel. no rules-have fun. You don't have to answer any of the questions-just give points for the ones you think are good-later I will post again and ask for answers. Ready, set, Go!
Crimony. I barely come in here and when I do I get roped into splitting hairs over the original request.
Should I just answer my own trivia questions?
Eddie Willers. Surprise.
Dr. Robert Stadler. Fear.
I believe Robert Stadler knew Delta Alpha Mike November well what became of John Galt, when people started asking, "Who is John Galt?" He might not know the full particulars, but he had an inkling. I know he did.
Robert Stadler hated people. His character made me think of every nerd whom the high-school football pep squad ever crammed into a locker during school hours. Space doesn't permit me to do justice to Robert Stadler, so I'll give you this link to an article of mine:
http://www.conservapedia.com/Robert_Stad...
Hint: It is one of a) Despise, or b) Adore.
Give examples of passages that justify your answer.
You and I both got to be mothers to lovely young women, too.
I can name two of them without looking them up (48 years after reading Atlas Shrugged), but that's only because the name of one of the cities is the same as my last name and one of the others is my home town.
(If Atlas Shrugged had really happened in the 1950's, I probably wouldn't be here today.)
Plot the named cities and towns along the perimeter of the effective radius of Project X. And from this plot:
1. Name the most likely real-life Iowa town that became Harmony City, and at last, Meigsville.
2. Plot the most likely real-life location of the Taggart Bridge.
That being said, I would guess the "most likely real-life" location of the Taggart Bridge to be Rock Island, Illinois, since (if I remember correctly) it was one of the cities destroyed by the inadvertent activation of Project X and is actually on the Mississippi River. It also the site of one of the first bridges to cross the Mississippi (to Davenport, Iowa via Arsenal Island).
And my guess for the most likely real-life inspiration for the "Comet" would be the Rock Island "Rocket" (of the Rock Island Line).
And I have fixed the town: Dunkertown, Iowa. It's the only town near enough "within a hundred miles" of all the cities and towns named.
https://www.google.com.ar/search?q=cente...
The candid answer is that Hank went to meet her at a Taggart construction site and fantasized about making love to her on the spot. He then decided that she could never know that.
As the issue resolves throughout the book, it becomes clear that Rand is refuting the "dichotomy of mind and body".
Now, who walked with her to phone for a replacement crew, and who did she leave in charge of the passengers left on the train?
The real first name: Tony.
I can't imagine her ever having said that anything actually "defeats" causality / identity.
I was going to say "God" as well. In general, the concept of "God" or of the primacy of consciousness is of course in conflict with identity and causality.
If you are good at solving this one, I have a couple of other mysteries as well.
I think ohiocrossroads has it right either way: "to avoid the temptation of being alone with her"
1. What big revelation and accusation did she make?
2. Hank Rearden, after listening to that, realizes and accepts that he is not the love of Dagny's life, and that she found that love wherever she disappeared to. How does he deduce this?
2. Because she used the past tense in describing their relationship.
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