Gene wrote:
> EdAugusts <AugustsBks@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:83e23190-cd22-
> 499e-a395-23e82b01c69f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> But I do know the phrase "Who is John Galt?" even if I've forgotten
>> now who the hell John Galt is.
>
> John Galt was a Scottish novelist and Byron biographer of the
> nineteenth century who also administered colonization efforts in
> Canada on behalf of the Canada Company. As an administrator, Galt
> proved to be incompetent and on being recalled to Britain was
> imprisoned for debt. Building on this record of accomplishment, Galt
> went hack to Canada to screw up more land development efforts. As
> both a literary figure and a guy who boldly went out into the
> wilderness and Got Things Done, his name obviously suggested itself
> as a good one for an Ayn Rand hero.
If you're going to write a thousand pages around the mysterious question
"Who is ---- ----?", you should probably think of an original name,
rather than that of someone famous.
--
Dan Clore
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-- Clark Ashton Smith, "Epigrams and Apothegms"
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