Steven L. wrote:
> Dan Clore wrote:
>> Gene wrote:
>>> EdAugusts <AugustsBks@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:83e23190-cd22-
>>> 499e-a395-23e82b01c69f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>>> 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.
>
> Here in America, "John Galt" isn't exactly "famous." Prior to
> Google, most folks who read Atlas Shrugged didn't know of him (and
> certainly didn't care).
He was a formerly well-known writer. The more literate would still have
heard of him. I've read some of his work in anthologies.
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Dan Clore
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