He listed a history of financial mismanagement among chapters and the Red Cross's failure to force its chapters into line.
In prose uninterrupted by chapters or line breaks, a twisted version of the 20th century is woven and unpicked again.
That sweetly funny chapter includes lines like, "May she play the Drums to the fiery rhythm of her Own Heart with the sinewy strength of her Own Arms, so she need Not Lie With Drummers".
He likes to end chapters with lines like "And it changed everything," and make their surprise value stick.
Tess's relationship with her father and mother was also incredibly well written, and the characterisation of the often dislikable Jack was brilliant: his chapters and lines were drenched with this arrogance, but then the little specks of care would shine through, and I was never quite sure whether I liked him or hated him.
Then I write, write, write -- pages and pages of notes, passages, dialog, chapters, plot lines -- until the characters begin to emerge and the story begins to tell itself, the single right story that wants to be told.
She dispenses with many of the chapter divisions and line spaces, and introduces her own.
Cruelly and unnecessarily, de Botton also reveals in the chapter's punch line that after correspondence with 12 literary agents the book remains unpublished.
His manservant, his ex-batman, serves him his morning beer loyally and "discreetly" leaves the room when he starts speculating about an encounter with a woman; and Drummond himself can begin a chapter with the line "I almost think, James, that I could toy with another kidney" (for breakfast).
The 1979 film Manhattan included a shot of the High Line, as director and star Woody Allen speaks the first line: "Chapter One.
