Chapters 22-24 Summary

Bogus lands in Germany and hitchhikes to Vienna. He has a long, strange dream about Merrill. He is excited about going to Vienna, but when he gets there, he is not quite sure what to do. He goes to a secondhand store and buys a new outfit and suitcase, dressing up like a spy, or so he imagines. He also buys a typewriter. He wanders around, asking people he meets if they know Merrill, with no luck. A prostitute kindly shows him to a hostel. The housekeeper asks him to please not type at night because it is too noisy. The sound of bidets flushing keeps Bogus up at night.

Bogus goes to Merrill's old apartment and finds an Austrian family living there. Bogus walks past a fountain that he and Biggie played in when they first met, and it makes...