human
They’re a bunch of fossils, he said.
gpt
Think they’re a ’_société savante_.’ They read books by foreign penologists and couldn’t tell a crook from a carpet sweeper. We need somebody to study American crime. Not a dilettante—someone who will go into it solid.
human
I imagine I could get the society to pay you a living salary. But they are dead ones. If you did anything that wasn’t in the books, it would scare them. I’ll think it over.