Atlas Shrugged Part I, Chapter 3: The Top and the Bottom - Backroom Deals and Dagny's War
Chapter 3 opens with one of the most satirical descriptions in the entire novel. Four men sit in the most expensive barroom in New York. The place is built on the roof of a skyscraper but designed to look like a cellar. Heavy low ceilings. Dark red leather. Blue lights like blackout lamps. The men who sit sixty floors above the city speak in low voices, “as befitted a cellar.”