Why bother to look for deep and complicated hidden meanings, especially when you contemplate the mystery of life. No less an authority than the immortal Johann Wolfgang von Goethe himself, put it as clearly and simply as this 'Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world." Can things be really as basic as all that? For a great many people, absolutely - and especially for the hero of our story, Mr William Bennett...