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  1. I think "Christian Objectivistism" is a particularly egregious contradiction if for no other reason than that it reeks of intellectual sloppiness.
  2. My reason for asking is not to appraise Rand as a novelist. I ask the question because I'm trying to understand what I read. I realized early in the book that the story is not very realistic, and that the author's intention is to tell a story of great individuals, so it makes sense that she uses the individual inventor as opposed to a team. But the fact that the protagonists assume that the motor was invented by a single man struck me as implying that such a revolutionary invention would only be likely to come from the mind of a single genius. Or maybe I'm reading too much into a triviality. Also, it's not that I don't like fiction, it's just that I hadn't had any exposure to it prior to reading Atlas. One has to start somewhere. I'm really loving the novel, for what it's worth (only on page 423).
  3. It's my first time reading Atlas. Or reading any kind of fiction for that matter.
  4. Why do Dagny and Hank assume that the motor had been invented by a single man, as opposed to a collaborative effort by an engineering team? Of course, it could have been either, but they automatically know that it was created by a single man. Why?
  5. I really wish I had discovered Objectivism when I was a teenager. It would have saved me a shit ton of trouble...