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    At the conclusion of Francisco’s theory of sexual attraction, Rearden has something to confess.

    An alternate ending to Part Two, Chapter IV: The Sanction of the Victim.

    If what he wanted from Dagny was depraved, what he wanted from Francisco was unspeakable. He had hidden it from himself; papered it over with other words—an enigma, an irritant, a goddamn waste of potential—all his manufactured excuses for why Francisco had become the beloved bone of an old dog who woke in the night to gnaw on the very thought of him.

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