[PW] Re: Atlas Shrugged

[Hadden, Robert L ERDC-TEC-VA]

Dear Lesley Williams:
	Actually, this isn't your problem. The patron asked for Atlas
Shrugged, and the patron should be the one to do the work to pin down the
exact quote. Get the patron a complete, not abridged, copy of the book, and
let the patron's fingers do the walkin'. You locate the source, and let the
patron do the research within the source. Or the patron can hire a high
school student to read the book from cover to cover, to locate the passage.
Do 'em both good to hire someone to do the literature searching, and to be
hired to read books that desperately needed an editor. Keeps the American
economy going. And you can hook the kid on expensive cigarettes with a gold
dollar sign embossed on the paper while he reads the book about people who
disappear as either the competent people go on strike or practice ethical
piracy.
	Besides, if the patron is looking for stuff from the Objectivism
group, you should charge the patron (in gold) for your services and time lest
you be thought of as altruistic and not part of the philosophical elite. That
will make them happy to be screwed financially. 
	"Greed is good," or as Dear Old Auntie Ayn Rand would say,
"сребролюбие хорошо!"

R. Lee Hadden
Geospatial Information Library (GIL)
Topographic Engineering Center
ATTN: CEERD-TO-I (Hadden)
7701 Telegraph Road
Alexandria, VA 22315-3864
(703) 428-9206
Robert.L.Hadden at erdc.usace.army.mil

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:30:37 -0500
From: "Williams, Lesley A." <lawilliams at cityofevanston.org>
Subject: [PW]  ?Atlas Shrugged quotation
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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    
1703 Orrington Avenue    
Evanston IL  60201 
www.epl.org/search 
tel: 847-448-8646
fax: 847-866-0319
lawilliams at cityofevanston.org