Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 Chapter 4: The Immovable Movers
Summary: Willers tells Dagny that McNamara quit. Dagny ponders her work, Richard Halley’s music, and d’Anconia as playboy. James and Betty Pope converse, and he condemns Dagny for limiting the San Sebastián Line, and then gets the news that Mexico nationalized the line. So James takes credit for doing what he condemned Dagny for doing. James and Orren Boyle converse, and is unable to phone d’Anconia. The National Alliance of Railroads passed the “Anti-dog-eat-dog Rule,” which sought to restrain “destructive competition,” effectively pushing Dan Conway (age c. 49) and the Phoenix-Durango line out of Colorado. Dagny tries in vain to persuade him to fight the rule. Ellis Wyatt warns Dagny that, without the Phoenix-Durango, he will need the Rio Norte Line in nine months. Dagny and Rearden agree to finish the line in time with Rearden Metal, and discuss its benefits.
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Start by reading the first-tier comments, which are all quotes of Ayn Rand (some of my favorites, some just important for other reasons). Comment on your favorite ones, or others' comments. Don't see your favorite quote? Post it in a new comment. Please reserve new comments for Ayn Rand, and your non-Rand quotes for "replies" to the quotes or discussion. (Otherwise Rand's quotes will get crowded out and pushed down into oblivion. You can help avoid this by "voting up" the Rand quotes, or at least the ones you think people should see, and voting down first-tier comments that are not quotes of the featured book.)
Atlas Shrugged was written by Ayn Rand in 1957.
My idea for this post is discussed here:
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“I thought… They said all of us were to stand for the common good. I thought what I had done down there in Colorado was good. Good for everybody.”
“Oh, you damn fool! Don’t you see that that’s what you’re being punished for – because it was good?”
“You’ll need them. How fast to you run your trains on the Rio Norte track?”
“Now? We’re lucky if we manage to make twenty miles an hour.”
He pointed at the cars. “When that rail is laid, you’ll be able to run trains at two hundred and fifty, if you wish.”
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