[PW] Re: ?Atlas Shrugged quotation

[Douglas Eric Anderson]

How certain is the patron that the passage is from that book, and not from
another book of Rand's?  For example, from something like _Capitalism: The
Unknown Ideal_?  Since Rand in her nonfiction essays quoted liberally from
her fiction, this wouldn't be the first person I've encountered who
mistook a quote from one for a quote from the other.

-- Doug A.


On Tue, July 18, 2006 12:30 pm, Williams, Lesley A. wrote:
> We have a patron who is looking for a passage in Ayn Rand's _Atlas
> Shrugged_ that deals with banking. The patron says it describes how banks
> lend money to each other overnight because they are required to maintain a
> certain amount of ready cash in house. I'm not familiar with the book, but
> I skimmed it while reading the chapter summaries from Sparknotes.com.
> Didn't find it, although I saw some passages in which the banker
> character, Midas Mulligan, complains about being forced to make a loan to
> an incompetent businessman named Hunsacker.
>
> I also looked at the website for the Objectivist Center and Google
> BookSearch, but to no avail. Any ideas?
>
> Lesley Williams
> Head, Information Services
> Evanston Public Library
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Douglas E. Anderson
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