07 April 2009

Chekov's Gun

There's a trope about what bugged me about "Atlas Shrugged".

The demonstration of the sonic goat death ray led me to expect it would be used on or at Galt's Gulch. That bothered me so much I couldn't really enjoy the pages and pages of speeches that come later.

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