current.state.of.mind

            "John Galt was a millionaire, a man
                of inestimable wealth. He was sailing his yacht one night, in the mid-Atlantic
          fighting the worst storm ever wreaked upon the world,
when he found it.
            He saw it in the depth, where it had sunk
              to escape the reach of men.
    He saw the towers of Atlantis shining on the bottom of the ocean.
                  It was a sight of such kind that when one had seen it, one could
no longer wish to look at the rest of the earth. John Galt sank his ship
                          and went down with his entire crew.
              They all chose to do it. My friend
                     was the only one who survived."
                          "How interesting."
                                   He chuckled at her brusque departure. Dagny asked coldly,
                                             "What's the joke?"
            "The joke's on that fool woman. She doesn't know that
                                    she was telling you the truth."

                 --Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged