“Which don’t mean to say,” she remarked, “that I don’t think there’s something mighty strange about you, Charlie. The way you’ve changed! I don’t know. You used to be a good, dependable man—ordinary, not too bright maybe, but honest—and who knows what you done to yourself to get so smart all of a sudden. Like everybody’s been saying—it ain’t right.” “But what’s wrong with a person wanting to be more intelligent, to acquire knowledge, and understand himself and the world?” “If you’d read your Bible, Charlie, you’d know that it’s not meant for man to know more than was given to him to know by
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