It's to her credit she never advocated violence, but she did glorify a worker sabotaging property belonging to an employer , because the worker felt modifications to it violated his principles. Even an unreconstructed old Trotskyite like myself would feel morally uncomfortable about that; it is a direct attack on another man's liveihood. I realize it is only a symbolic action in a novel, but It makes you wonder, as a writer, what were her relations with her editors?

I can see it now, "I'm sorry Ayn, but that love scene really needs to be re-written..."

And thanks for tracking down the rest of the cartoon, I stumbled on it by accident, and realized the punch line had been left off, probably deliberately, but I had no way of (easily) locating it.

BTW, did you check out the Slate article on Rand I linked to below?

http://www.slate.com/id/2233966/