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by alokhar 4943 days ago
Who is Galt?
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"John Galt is a fictional character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged (1957)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

What I meant was: Who is John Galt?
A fictional character.
Ah, the lesser seen cousin of Poe's Law: any sufficiently confused exchange on the Internet is indistinguishable from an Abbot and Costello routine.
If only it were so! Profound confusion would be much easier to spot in a world that worked like that.
tednaleid, you seem to be dead. Perhaps posting a link to wikipedia with no other content auto-triggered something.
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