Catch-22

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

‘Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?’

22 love most is precisely what, from the Flaubertian

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

Kraft was a skinny, harmless kid from Pennsylvania who wanted only to be liked, and was destined to be disappointed in even so humble and degrading an ambition.

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.

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

McWatt was the craziest combat man of them all probably, because he was perfectly sane and still did not mind the war.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.