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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comA ROUND UNIVERSE 157naturally emotive person, Nathan struggled to please. They spent manyof their assignation hours deep in psychological and philosophical discussion,atonement for Nathan’s latest perceived slight or indifference.Although he was thrilled by the affair, Nathan felt pressured to meet thedepth of her romantic feeling for him, a task that became more difficultas the novelty of their relations wore off. He was also pulled away by hisloyalty to Barbara, who began suffering intense panic attacks. Nathan,who styled himself a psychologist, could find no reason for Barbara’sanxiety. Neither of them imagined the affair, and the deception it engendered,could be a source of her inner turmoil. Perhaps the hardest hitwas Frank, who was displaced from his apartment twice a week whenNathan arrived to rendezvous with his wife. His destination on many ofthese afternoons and evenings was a neighborhood bar. 54Rand’s liaison with Branden came just as she began writing the mostcrucial part of Atlas Shrugged. The early stages of the book had beenfairly trouble-free. She had created a cast of characters that made forpleasant company. There was Hank Rearden, a conflicted industrialistwhose new steel alloy is appropriated by the collectivists. Betweenappearances at the latest jet-set parties, Francisco D’Anconia, a brilliantaristocratic playboy, destroys his family company lest it fall to theenemy. Most fun of all was Dagny Taggart, who gave Rand the chance topresent the ideal woman. An engineer like Kira in We the Living, Dagnyis a proto-feminist heroine, a powerful businesswoman who moves easilyfrom one lover to the next. Like all Rand heroines, Dagny is beautifulas well as brilliant, and socially well born. A glamorous and strikingblonde, she is the granddaughter of a pioneering railroad tycoon whoseempire she now controls. The book’s driving force is John Galt, a characterRand variously identified as a fictional version of Frank or Nathan.The leader of the strike and the mouthpiece for Rand’s philosophy, Galtis a physicist who invents groundbreaking technologies while workingas a menial laborer.Rand’s difficulties came to a head around Galt’s speech, whichoccurs toward the very end of the 1,084-page book. Whereas the restof Atlas Shrugged is a fast-paced narrative, full of the tightly plottedtwists and turns that Rand loved to write, Galt’s speech is something