➔ Atlas Shrugged Part II Chapter 8: By Our Love - The Tunnel Disaster That Pulls Dagny Back
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This chapter has one of the most haunting sequences in the entire book. If you have ever worked in any system where competent people got stripped out one by one and replaced with yes-men, you will recognize every single step of what happens here. Starts slow. Then it becomes unstoppable.
Dagny in the Woods
Dagny is hiding from the world. She is in her family’s old cabin in the Berkshires, alone, trying to heal. She quit the railroad. She told herself she needs rest, needs to learn to live without Taggart Transcontinental, needs to get the pain out of the way.