John Galt - ATLAS SHRUGGED

John Galt - ATLAS SHRUGGED

Ayn Rand's [who?!!] basic purpose as a novelist was to present the ideal man - the consistent, the perfect. In Atlas Shrugged, this is John Galt, the towering figure [got it. - G] who [Who] moves the world and the novel, yet does not appear onstage until Part III. By his [His] nature Galt [God?!!] is necessarily central to the lives of all the characters. In one note, "Galt's relation to the others," Miss Rand [?!!] defines succinctly [very briefly] what Galt [?!!] represents to each of them:

For Dagny - [Galt represents] the ideal. The answer to her two quests: the man of genius and the man she loves.

For the Composer - [Galt represents] the inspiration and the perfect audience.

For the Philosopher - [Galt represents] the embodiment of his abstractions.

To James Taggart - [Galt represents] the eternal threat. The secret dread. The guilt (his own guilt). He has that constant, causeless, unnamed, hysterical fear. And he recognizes [his hysterical fear] when he hears Galt's broadcast [Galt's sounds like God's] and when he sees Galt [God?!!] in person for the first time.

To the Professor - [Galt represents] his conscience. The reminder. The ghost that haunts him through everything he does, without a moment's peace. The thing that says: "No" to his whole life. The Professor is Robert Stadler.

              - Leonard Peikoff

John = NL

Galt = K.S.? (I put the question mark after K.S. because I do not want to take any chances coz I haven't read this big novel yet, though I bought it on June 8, 2016. I plan to read this interesting novel soon, I hope.)

Kishalay Sinha [G]