Dr john galt biography definition
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John Galt
Protagonist in Atlas Shrugged
For other uses, see John Galt (disambiguation).
Fictional character
John Galt () is a character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged (1957). Although he is not identified by name until the last third of the novel, he is the object of its often-repeated question "Who is John Galt?" and of the quest to discover the answer. Also, in the later part it becomes klar that Galt had been present in the book's plot all along, playing several important roles though not identified by name.
As the plot unfolds, Galt is acknowledged to be a philosopher and inventor; he believes in the power and glory of the human mind, and the rights of individuals to use their minds solely for themselves. He serves as a highly individualistic counterpoint to the collectivist social and economic structure depicted in the novel, in which society is based on oppressive bureaucratic functionaries and a culture that embraces mediocrity in the name of social egalita
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In the midst of my absence last month, I managed to squeeze in some time to read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.
It was only 1000 pages of very fine print – no problem!
I had been meaning to read the book for years.
I once knew a certain hona executive whose passion for work knew no bounds and who once admitted to me that the source of much of her passion came from Atlas Shrugged.
I once played Bioshock on my laptop. The entire backstory and characters involved in the underwater city of Rapture were based upon the ideas of Atlas Shrugged. There are many references in the game to Ayn Rand’s story and characters and even Ayn Rand herself.
I also read Francis Ford Coppola’s unproduced years-in-the-making epic script, Megalopolis, which Coppola said was influenced by Atlas Shrugged.
In any case, I could not put the book down. I flew through the thousand pages without a sweat. It’s amazing to me how on the one grabb, some 120-page amateur screenplays require monumenta
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Galt, John
GALT, JOHN (1779–1839), novelist, was born 2 May 1779 at Irvine in Ayrshire. His father commanded a West-Indiaman. His mother was a woman of much character, shrewd, full of humour, and quaintly original in conversation. Gait as a child was delicate and sensitive, fond of ballads and storybooks. At the age of ten his family removed to Greenock, and Galt completed at various schools the desultory education begun at home and at the grammar school of Irvine. He was then placed in the Greenock custom-house to acquire some clerkly experience, whence he was transferred to a desk in a mercantile house in Greenock. He read in the public library and joined a literary society. He wrote a tragedy on the story of Mary Queen of Scots, which was followed by a poem on the ‘Battle of Largs.’ He contributed verses to local newspapers and to an Edinburgh magazine, and wrote a memoir of John Wilson, author of ‘The Clyde,’ for