September 2, 2011 - 12:39 pm
“A white rectangle hung over the city, imparting the date to the men in the streets below. In the rusty light of this evening’s sunset, the rectangle said: September 2.”
“A white rectangle hung over the city, imparting the date to the men in the streets below. In the rusty light of this evening’s sunset, the rectangle said: September 2.”
So what happens when the lights go out? (Aside from the EPA predicting massive power outtages)
When the lights go out, it’s no longer Sept 2.
When the lights go out, that means Atlas has shrugged. If you haven’t read the book, the lights going out in NYC happens at the very end.
I love it when d’Anconia hacks the sign!
Brother, you asked for it!
The good news is Part Two of the movie version is due out in the fall of next year. Me, I can’t get over the climax of Part One — Dagny’s scream of betrayal, incomprehension and fear as the bottom drops out of her world…