Status Updates From Der Ursprung

Keatings life is becoming a failure. His office is down to one floor, after the failure of the Centuries exhibit, the resigning Guy, and the Depression. His mom moves in with him, and he starts to paint alone since it makes him peaceful. He needs one more commission, and goes to Toohey to try to get it. Toohey tells him he can have it if he succeeds but that he was always replaceable. Keating calls Roark for help

Morbidly curious. Initially stopped after the first ch bc I was horrified by the way her prose drips w contempt for most humans. Currently further along then I realized this book is 800pp. I like the tension around what architecture is - art? Playing god? Public space? Phallus metaphor? Interested in the rivalry between (sociopathic) genius and sellout, though i think I’ll be disappointed it doesn’t turn gay