Both.

Best.

Brian Lamb dicsusses the book 1776 with its author, David McCullough ...

[Henry Knox] is such an extraordinary story of an American who seemed to be miscast, seemed to be a fellow not prepared for the role that history had for him to play and who not only lived up to the role but went over the top, as it were.  An example of a man who came from very humble origins with very little advantage in the way of education or connections.  He rose to be one of the most important Americans of his day, the man that George Washington discovered and the man that George Washington counted on through nearly eight and a half years of the Revolutionary War and who then counted on him as his secretary of war during the time that Washington was president.

He started out as a Boston bookseller. Big, stout, gregarious, robust, friendly, popular fellow who had about the equivalent of a fifth grade education and who loved books and never stopped reading. And he became one of the best officers in the whole war. 

Washington singled out two young men almost within a week or two weeks after he took command at Cambridge, Massachusetts as people he could count on. One was Nathaniel Green, who was a 33-year-old Quaker who'd been made a major general at the age of 33, having had no military experience at all. And the second was Henry Knox, who was all of 25, and he had had no military experience at all.  But both of them had been reading books. What they knew about the military was entirely from books. That was an age, an era that believed that one of the best ways to learn things was to read books, the age of The Enlightenment. They are in their way, I think, wonderful examples, personifications of the Enlightenment faith that if you want to learn something, pick up a book and get reading.

Henry Knox, a long-standing member of The Hammock Papers' Great Hall.

The "Knox Moving Co." scene from John Adams ...

An excellent book ...

Why.

Why not mashed potatoes on the other side?

Hungry.

You've got to feed 'em when they're hungry ...

Kes is one of the best movies I've ever seen.

Excellent.

An excellent movie.

You might think it's funny.  You might think he gets what's coming to him.  You might be wrong.

Whitman.

It's all Whitman ...

True.

It'd be hilarious if it wasn't absolutely, word-for-word, heartbreakingly true ...

People would like that.

Think.

From The Monuments Men ...

I'll think about my cigarette, and I'll think about you, sitting there with that stupid look on your face, I'll finish my coffee, leave the paper for Sid to wrap fish in and I'll never think of you again ...

Scarecrow.

An Autumn Sunday night, 50 years ago, brought Scarecrow weather, me lads ...

If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet,

Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street,

Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.

Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!

Not.

We're not laying pipe ...

What will your verse be?

Released.

Jaws was released on this day in 1975.

Hooper drives the boat, chief.

Commerce.

An inside look at Ohio's admissions process ...

Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. "More human than human" is our motto.  

Rachel is an experiment nothing more.

Technique.

Technique is the proof of your seriousness.

Wallace Stevens

Never.

Some say he's dead.  Some say he never will be ...

Excellent.

An excellent movie ...

Resurrect The Chowder Society!

Coachman.

In the Autumn of 1984, I went alone to see a movie that changed my life ...

To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.

Mozart, from a 1782 letter to his father

After seeing Amadeus, I researched, listened, researched some more, ate rustic cheeses and drank wine out of dark green bottles while I listened.  Tapers lit my reading.  

Classical music was immediately stripped of its elitism and I fell in love with its ability to make my days simply magical -- more truthful, more beautiful, more good.  It could be invigorating, calming, and sentimental (thanks, Mum); suitable for cooking, studying, driving, reading, partying, working, being outside ...

The scene above has always struck me as a vision of happiness. I would have been in that audience.  The coachman in me will be forever grateful.

America.

This is America. https://t.co/jczyNLTlaA pic.twitter.com/ExLnPx5mqj

— Smoky Mountains Enjoyer 🪕 🌄 (@AdmiralBoreal) December 15, 2023

Scarecrow.

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color 1964 presentation of the Thorndike classic, Dr. Syn: Alias, The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh ...

Scarecrow.

So the King told all his soldiers,

“Hang him high or hang him low!

But never return

‘Til the day I learn

He’s gone in the flames below;

Or you’ll hang —

With the great Scarecrow!”

If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet,

Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street,

Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.

Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!

Squibs.

Squibs arrive today ...

... well, maybe a slight bit.