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"Wertheimer was no traveler like me. Was no passionate address-switcher... [He] was always and only the loser. No one pounded the streets of Vienna like he did, coming and going in until he was totally exhausted. Diversion maneuvers, I thought. He wore out tremendous quantities of shoes" (44)

"My constant curiosity got in the way of my suicide, so he said, I thought" (47)

Wertheimer is just as pitiable as loathsome