Another Fountainhead Snip
Posted by A.W. - January 8th, 2006
Like this one a lot. From chapter 6 of Part Four: Howard Roak in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead:
“Look, Gail” Roark got up, reached out, tore a think branch off a tree, held it in both hands , one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. “Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That’s the meaning of life.”
“Your strength?”
“Your work.” He tossed the branch aside. “The material the earth offers you and what you make of it…”