Both Uses of
keystone
in
Atlas Shrugged
- She sat looking at the two thin, delicate, almost weightless drops of gold in the palm of her hand, knowing that the whole of the Taggart Transcontinental system had rested upon them, that this had been the keystone supporting all the keystones, all the arches, all the girders of the Taggart track, the Taggart Bridge, the Taggart Building…… She shook her head and slipped the coins back into his hand.†
Chpt 3.1
- She sat looking at the two thin, delicate, almost weightless drops of gold in the palm of her hand, knowing that the whole of the Taggart Transcontinental system had rested upon them, that this had been the keystone supporting all the keystones, all the arches, all the girders of the Taggart track, the Taggart Bridge, the Taggart Building…… She shook her head and slipped the coins back into his hand.†
Chpt 3.1 *
Definition:
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(keystone) something of importance upon which other things depend
or:
architecture or masonry: the central building block at the top of an arch or vault (providing pressure to lock the other blocks into place)