Status Updates From The Fountainhead

Dom stays in the penthouse for months after the wedding, and Gail starts working very hard again. A banner writer writes a story on Dom and js fired for it. Dom makes Gail go to a showing of the bad play lifted by the banner, and it made her think of the fight between people like Roark vs the power of the banner. She crashes out a bit on Gail since they both feel treasonous for their roles in having that play aired

Dom gets back from Reno and asks Gail for a massive public wedding, which he puts together without hesitation, even though he did not want it. After Dom realizes he had his papers not report on it, she lets him leave the wedding and realizes he won by being unbothered. Toohey and Alvah discuss all the mail the paper is getting about the wedding, and how Toohey also helps another magazine. Toohey says he’s loyal

Toohey supports modern architecture, even though it’s not as pure as Henry Cameron’s original work. Peter asks Toohey if he’s serious, which he says he is, about architecture being ever-changing. Keating starts work on Stoneridge but is exhausted. Francon retires and Keating has Dumont join him as a partner.

Toohey is with his council of writers listening to a play by Ike. They all say it’s terrible, but the banners writer Jules (who Toohey got hired) says it’s great. He explains he knows it’s trash but he can make the public think it’s good. He can bring down good work by comparing this trash to it and people won’t know the difference. Keating joins and the artists realize he is their target audience.

"He thought that he had believed it was a simple sequence, the past and the present, and if there was loss in the past one was compensated by pain in the present, and pain gave it a form of immortality—but he had not known that one could destroy like this, kill retroactively—so that to her it had never existed."