All 3 Uses of
Fountain of Youth
in
Atlas Shrugged
- The man who found the fountain of youth.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- He found the fountain of youth, which he wanted to bring down to men.†
Chpt 1.7
- …all his life, the land he had struggled to reach, the goal of his tortured battle…… It seemed to her that the spirals of flame tinged fog were drawing time into an odd circle-and while a dim thought went floating through her mind like the streamer of an unfollowed sentence: To hold an unchanging youth is to reach, at the end, the vision with which one started-she heard the voice of a tramp in a diner, saying, "John Galt found the fountain of youth which he wanted to bring down to men.†
Chpt 3.1
Definition:
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(Fountain of Youth) a fountain described in folk tales as able to make people young again