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From: claris!netcom!mcmahan@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Dave Mc Mahan)
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 461, Message 9 of 12


 In a previous article, dattier@chinet.chi.il.us (David Tamkin)
writes:

>Someone who signed himself John David Galt (I see "John Galt" as a CB
>handle quite a bit, so it must be the name of some fictional
>character, and thus might not be the submitter's actual name) wrote in
>volume 10, issue 452, completely misunderstanding my position:

[Stuff deleted here]

Yes, John Galt is a fictional character from the novel, "Atlas
Shrugged" by Ayn Rynd.  (I'm not sure of spelling of the author's
name.  It's been about fifteen years since I read the book).  The plot
was kind of thick, but basically the guy was thought (until the end of
the novel) to be a fictitious person.  In the book, it was very common
to see the phrase, "Who is John Galt?" scrawled as graffiti in a
decaying world.  As I recall, he turned out to be a brilliant engineer
who had dedicated himself to saving the world and was using a very
non-conventional approach.


  -dave