Catch-22

Because he needed a friend so desperately, he never found one.

22 love most is precisely what, from the Flaubertian

Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off.

His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily.

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

He had opposed his daughter’s marriage to Colonel Moodus because he disliked attending weddings.

‘How can he see he’s got flies in his eyes if he’s got flies in his eyes?’

He had to start at the top and work his way down, and with sympathetic friends in Washington, losing money was no simple matter. It took months of hard work and careful misplanning.