| | For the New Intellectual contains outtakes from Atlas, soliloquies that outline some point of philosophy. In addition to those, I found others that are important enough to merit a separate presentation. When Dagny reveals her affair with Hank Rearden on Bertram Scudder's radio show and comes home to find him in her apartment, Rearden has long passages separated by just enough type to let him take a breath. They could stand on their own if there were a FNI: Volume 2.
Pg. 797 (ppb) para. 2 top begins, "Let me finish, dearest." but could begin with "I, who thought that I was fighting them./." and carry down to "If some man like Hugh Akston had told me when I started that in accepting the mystics' theory of sex, I was accepting the looters' theory of economics, I would have laughed in his face. I would not laugh at him now."
Not quite able to stand alone, but informatively complex those with the full context is the paragraph that begins: "People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim." It is ironic that in attempting to hide something from the world, you make that the property of the world.
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