| | If I recall correctly, Keating has enough money to last through his lifetime. His decision to paint is personal, something apart from the office. The office will always be there. They had to close some of it off. It might be much small -- as Cameron's became, but like Henry Cameron, Peter Keating will always get some commissions. It is just that he will not enjoy them. He did not enjoy doing architecture, but only being an architect. So, he took up painting, something he always wanted to do.
I agree with the assessment of the assessment. "It's too late" refers not to Keating's ability to doodle, but to his ability to identify and execute a subject. He is not a child. He has lived his life in the arts... and yet, he lacks something that perhaps he could have developed, but never did.
I also agree with the assessment of the assessment that this is curious considering Frank O'Connor's story. Perhaps that proves the rule: O'Connor had the right stuff inside; Keating never did.
The Fountainhead is a novel. Characters are representations of ideals, not biographical entities. Rand needed to wipe Keating away, so she did.
I disagree wtih Luke Setzer's opinion that Keating might get a job in the service sector.
Associated Press
posted: 12:00 pm ET
23 September 2003
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nine experts on a NASA space safety advisory panel have resigned in the wake of sharp criticism from the Columbia accident investigation board and by Congress, the space agency said Tuesday.
The members of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel and two staff members of the panel sent letters of resignation to NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe.
Do you think they are working at Wal-Mart now?
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