The Publisher
Samuel Johnson said of the writing of a biography, " It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discrimination; and few people who have lived with a man know what to remark about him."
Samuel Johnson said of the writing of a biography, " It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discrimination; and few people who have lived with a man know what to remark about him."
Nevertheless, the author and publisher believed there were biographies worth writing and principles worth re-telling in the lives of his grandfathers that would otherwise go untold. Two biographies will suffice this author, however, because, after all, he had only two grandfathers.
Nevertheless, the author and publisher believed there were biographies worth writing and principles worth re-telling in the lives of his grandfathers that would otherwise go untold. Two biographies will suffice this author, however, because, after all, he had only two grandfathers.
Gaston Collins and the publisher are shown writing what would later become one of the appendices of Buy the Truth and Sell it Not during a 1965 cleanup of the family cemetery. The author and publisher is one of five grandchildren of Gaston Collins and one of the twenty-one grandchildren of Will Cook. He received his education from Tennessee Technological University, from traveling in the realms of gold*, from standing on the shoulders of giants** and from reading the Good Book.
*as in John Keats allusion to reading in On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, Gaston Collins and the publisher are shown writing what would later become one of the appendices of Buy the Truth and Sell it Not during a 1965 cleanup of the family cemetery. The author and publisher is one of five grandchildren of Gaston Collins and one of the twenty-one grandchildren of Will Cook. He received his education from Tennessee Technological University, from traveling in the realms of gold*, from standing on the shoulders of giants** and from reading the Good Book.
MUCH have I travelled in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been...
** as in the quote "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." spoken by (among others) Bernard of Chartres in the 12th century, and Isaac Newton in the 17th century.