"Ought not to daunt you. Never be daunted. Secret of my success. Never been daunted. Never been daunted in public." -pg. 79
By daunted he meant drunk. But what was irnoic is that he was always drunk.He was drunk in public many times, at the bar or at the bullfights. Even on the bus to Spain. I thought maybe he was just joking, or exceptionally dense, but maybe he was just naive. No one corrected him. For the entire book, he and his associates were wasted. It never brought them to their downfall. He was right there. However, it couldn't have been the secret to their success, because as far as I saw they were never very successful. They seemed to coast right along in the middle, not amounting to much of anything but satisfied with that because it meant they weren't screwing things up past repair.
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