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Dagny placed the remnant of the motor into a vault in one of the tunnels; the vault had once contained an emergency electric generator, which had been removed long ago.
—a thing that made me go hmm. Was it really necessary to bring up the prior content of the vault?
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Man’s mind or reason, his engine for life was also once used in ancient Greece and again during the Enlightenment, and in the face of bad philosophy is once more abandoned with nothing in its place... now another chance at restarting the generator of his life... a rebirth of reason.
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Atlas Shrugged, the Kelsae Sweet Giant Onion of literature. The chapter Wyatt's Torch just got more intricate.
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Rand is drawing a parallel between the broken "motor" she found and an electric generator. Also, in a way what had been removed is now restored (although the "motor" doesn't work yet) foreshadowing some other restoration yet to occur.
A vault also keeps private, or keeps a secret, what is within it. This is yet another foreshadowing of her discovery that John Galt has already secretly been working in the Taggart Terminal. As the book goes on to show, Galt really has been Dagny's private motivation all along, even before she knew Galt existed.
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