All 4 Uses of
loophole
in
Atlas Shrugged
- The loophole.†
Chpt 1.10 *loophole = something left out of a rule that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation
- Yet you propose a plan to destroy me, a plan which demands, with an idiot's crudeness, without loopholes, detours or escape, that I work at a loss-that I work, with every ton I pour costing me more than I'll get for it-that I feed the last of my wealth away until we all starve together.†
Chpt 3.6loopholes = things left out of a rules that make it possible to evade difficulties or obligations
- If you hold the irrational as your standard of value and the impossible as your concept of the good, if you long for rewards you have not earned, for a fortune or a love you don't deserve, for a loophole in the law of causality, for an A that becomes non-A at your whim, if you desire the opposite of existence-you will reach it.†
Chpt 3.7loophole = something left out of a rule that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation
- Rationality twenty-four hours a day, with no loophole, no rest, no escape?†
Chpt 3.8
Definitions:
-
(1)
(loophole) a gap in a rule, allowing avoidance of the rule's core intent -- especially in the text of a law or contract
-
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, loophole can refer to a small opening in a castle that provides light and air, and allows an arrow to be fired from within. The opening is narrow enough that it is largely protects from incoming arrows.