human
Wayne, where do you get dangerous literature?
gpt
I don't know what form of danger you're courting, Katie. I have a valuable work on high explosives, and I have a couple of volumes of De Maupassant.
human
Oh I weathered all that kind of danger long ago, said she airily.
gpt
I want the kind that is distressing editors of church papers. The man who edits this religious paper uncle sends me is a most unchristian gentleman. He devoted a whole page to talking about dangerous literature and then didn't tell you where to get it. Well, I'll try Walt Whitman. He's very popular in the West, I'm told, and as the West likes danger perhaps he's dangerous enough to begin on.
human
And you feel, do you, Katie, that the need of your life just now is for danger?
gpt
Yes, dear brother. Danger I must have at any cost. What's the good living in a dangerous age if you don't get hold of any of the danger? This unchristian editor says that little do we realize what a dangerous age it is. And he says it's the literature that's making it so. Then find the literature. Only he--beast!--doesn't tell you where to.
human
I guess the man that mends the boats has got some dangerous literature, Aunt Kate.
gpt
Tell him to endanger Aunt Kate,
human
Do you suppose there is any way, Wayne, she began, after a moment of seeming to have a very good time all to herself,
gpt
It would considerably enrich us,
human
When doctors or lawyers don't do things right can't you sue them and get your money back? Why can't you do the same thing with educators? I'm going to enter suit against Miss Sisson. This unchristian editor says modern education is dangerous; but there was no danger in the course at Miss Sisson's. I want my money back.
gpt
That you may invest it in dangerous literature?
human
If you had ever had anything to _do_ with danger--you might not be so anxious to find it.
gpt
I can't tell you--when I begin to talk about it-- The tears were in her eyes, too, then, and upon her cheeks.
human
You see--I can't--But, Katie--I want _you_ to be safe. I want you to be _safe_. You don't know what it means--to be safe.
gpt
If you've been in danger, she concluded,