Gradually and then suddenly.
[Excerpt from The Pickett Line April 2024 Issue] “How did you go bankrupt?”, Bill Gorton asks Mike Campbell on page 136 of Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’. “Two ways,” Mike answers. “Gradually and then suddenly”. In Mike’s case, it was brought on by acquiring a collection of “false friends” and “probably more …