Status Updates From Der Streik

517-523. How did Rearden just have this massive revelation of philosophical exposition and I’m still not even halfway through this book?

“Joy is the core of existence”? Awesome
I shouldn’t have to do anything that other people want me to do (also, they’re too dumb and immoral to understand they’re wrong)? Kinda selfish
My wife is at fault for my inadequacies in our marriage? No

"'You wanted to know the name of that other man? The man I slept with? The man who had me first? It was Francisco d'Anconia!' She saw the force of the blow by seeing his face swept blank. She knew that if justice was her purpose, she had achieved it - because this slap was worse than the one he had dealt" (590).