and summarily fired whitman, and of course that led to the defense of whitman famously william douglas o'connor's the good great poet and probably led to a different persona of whitman in later years that he sort of lived himself into and o'connor and i think whitman himself were we're ready to defend. what whitman had done as a writer and as a person and happy to have that debate on sexual grounds because they felt that the culture had been. dishonest about just even acknowledging the body and sexuality and its needs and its pleasures desires. and yet being in a government office also had some constraints for whitman. i mean he was in a set of circumstances where decorum was expected and interestingly in the 3000 documents that we've referred to you often find whitman signing off on documents your obedient servant. well in all of whitman's personal correspondence, he never once uses that phrase he is not positioning himself as a servant to anyone. he's he's a democrat. he's a he's a, you know, a proud of person as anybody else and he doesn't believe in that kind of lowering of himself. even if i