Status Updates From The Sun Also Rises

Kind of a slog

End of book one. Not much has gone on so far, just getting introduced to the characters and their endless drinking around Post-WW1 Paris.
“You see Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well… That is the secret. You must get to know the values”. …
“You haven’t any values. You’re dead, that’s all.
No, my dear. You’re not right. I’m not dead at all.”