As I have little to say of myself, I will use this opportunity to thank my educators. Those I have known personally are not of great renown and so I severely doubt the reader has also been acquainted with them. The authors of renown that I feel I am in debt to for my education as a writer, and otherwise are the following (in no particular order): Steinbeck, Plato, Nietzsche, Clemens (Twain), Dickinson, Joyce, Einstein, Frost, L'Amour, Dumas, Lee, Tolstoy, Cook, Luther, Franklin, Defoe.