Atta (9): 242: Today's kick-ass question

[mikebailey]

On Thu, 17 May 2007, David Morris (if I parse correctly) wrote:
>
> I'm  in the 900's now, and won't finish AtD before I leave for a 2
> week trip to Florence,

Lucky, lucky person!  that'd be Florence, It'ly?

> read the section where ...
> ...I really felt like I was reading some sort of
> political tract (OK, it's not THAT extreme).  Thank God it doesn't go
> on for endless pages, and it's written in a comic manner...
> other than those two qualifiers,

which are fairly major

> I immediately thought of the long
> preachy segment towards the end of Atlas Shrugged (Yuck!).

but, wait, maybe it's an intentional satire...on that segment...
in which case it would be pretty funny: the world going to hell
in a handbasket, and these chosen few...