Category: Sisyphus Winced

Brave New World took me longer to re-read than I’d expected, given its length, and on reflection, the similarities between it and Atlas Shrugged are more ...

Let’s go to a movie where everybody fights But in the end there’s dancing, songs, and smiles You need lots of smiles — Boomtown Rats, “W...

What a strange and silly chapter. It feels like Rand is getting as tired of this book as I am. Chapter summary: Stadler decides to seize power by taking over Pr...

There is a light at the end of the tunnel. It’s obviously not one of Dagny’s trains, since those tunnels have all collapsed. Chapter summary: Follow...

I had a joke to put here, but I decided: I’m tired of the smarmy jokes. This book is having an odd effect on me, this chapter in particular. Chapter summa...

While the previous chapter focused on Dagny, this one focuses on Hank, tying up the final loose end that needs to be tied up before Galt can give his soliloquy....

Being sick much of last week, I muddled slowly through the first part of this chapter, and then in a sudden urge to finish this by the end of the month, I surge...

In this chapter, Rand experiments with Shakespearean-style drama. It is engaging until it goes overboard. This is what editors are supposed to be for, but IR...

Quick question: What was Mr. Hyde’s great crime in Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, the act that RL Stevenson thought would make his readers recoil in horror and...

My current bookmark for Atlas Shrugged is the Temperance card from a miniature copy of the Rider Waite tarot. The deck itself is strewn across the basement floo...