Status Updates From La fonte meravigliosa

Why does the introduction go hard

Keatings building opens, but he’s not happy about it. Toohey tells him it’s because he needs to be selfless. Roark hires Mallory, the sculptor that shot at Toohey, for the Temple. He goes and visits him to convince him to work, since he’s like Roark. It takes some convincing but Mallory realizes they’re similar. He wants him to sculpt Dom. Guy and Toohey obv object. The hotel build is stopped due to funds

“He did not talk about God and the nobility of suffering. He talked about the masses. He proved to a rapt audience, at bull sessions lasting till dawn, that religion bred selfishness; because, he stated, religion overemphasized the importance of the individual spirit; religion preached nothing but a single concern—the salvation of one’s own soul.”

“Go on, eat your lunch Howard. I like to see you eating. I wish you were broke, so that I could feed you this lunch and know you really needed it.”

holy fuck can they just kiss sloppy style already what is this

The Enright house opens, attracting some small attention, but also people Roark wants. Dom stays in NY to be with Roark over the summer. Roark signs a contract to build a large hotel called the Aquitania, frustrating Toohey, and Dom gloats about it. Toohey secretly gets Roark a commission to do a temple of the human spirit without having the funder look at any of Roarks work, seemingly setting him up to disappoint

A story of Tooheys life. He was always very physically weak but vocally powerful. He transitioned to being interested in religion to sociology to architecture as he grew up. He always had strong aura that made people attracted to him, and those who became friends with him remained so. It was surprising he worked for Wyland considering they strongly disliked each other, but he wrote about architecture so he hired him