when i when think about the great of of american writers, whether it's faulkner or hemingway or langston hughes, i also see what i mentioned earlier, that part of myself that is constant really dissatisfied and, restless and wanting to see what's next and and leaving the past behind, but always being drawn back to it. you know. so i think when think about my own work, i have been shaped just as my character has been shaped by that quintessential, you know, jack kerouac, open road, you know of looking west seeing what's next and or in the case of somebody like, you know, frederick douglass looking north to see what's next. but but either way, wanting to to break the chains, whatever constraints were, you know, we were we were born into and bound to. mm hmm. thank you. i'd like to ask you about the organized structure or the frame for the book. the book begins with a section called the bette. and it ends with the second call on, the high wire, which suggests that you're not sure if if the bette has yielded dividends. and it's interesting the notion of it being a way of looking at presidenc